Mark Twain once said, Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. True role models generate motivation. He or she proved that it could be done. And if he can do it, so can you.
Reading about how someone else achieved success creates beliefs in you that your goal is possible. It energizes you.
Successful people have role models. Here are a few examples:
Arnold Schwarzenegger found his role model, Reg Park, in a bodybuilding magazine. Reg was the most powerful person at the time, and Arnold dreamed of having huge muscles like Reg’s. Arnold learned everything he could about Reg: his training routine, his diet, his lifestyle. The more he learned about Reg and followed his example, the more Arnold realized it was possible for him to become like Reg. (Source: Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey)
Pete Sampras. Born in 1971, tennis great Pete Sampras grew up idolizing his role model-the great tennis champ Rod Laver of Australia. Young Pete dreamed how one day he would also play in the U.S. Open.
As a sixteen-year-old qualifier, Pete...
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