Robert Greene

But people who have the worst circumstances in them, they're either crushed by it or they use it to develop themselves.

And it brought out best in me.

It made me do things that I'd never done before.

It built up my self-confidence.

So it's the equivalent of somebody doubting you because there were a lot of doubters around and a lot of people thinking, well, Robert's kind of finished you.

We thought he was this, but he's not really.

And so having that kind of pressure, like we talked about deadlines and having people doubt you, it can crush you, but it can also make you a lot stronger.

It can make you a better fighter.

You know, when you focus on something...

The world just kind of opens up, but you have to be focusing on the right thing.

At so many turning points in my life, I could have been discouraged.

I had somebody say, Robert, you're never going to be a good rider in life.

My parents tried to funnel me this way or that way.

I was stubborn.

and I was rebellious, and I did my own thing.

Because of that, I have a different voice from other people, right?

I'm searching for that voice, for that voice of somebody who's different, who has something different to say, who speaks in a different tone of voice, that has their blood and their personality in their writing.

And I don't find it often, but when I do, it's a great thing.

And so to me, success in life, it's a process of becoming who you actually are and realizing what it is.

You have to go inward.