Let's be realistic. Approaching a book like this should always be an exercise in critical curiosity. The overwhelming success of Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba or Steve Wozniak cannot be thought of as a formula to be meticulously repeated to obtain the same result. It's one thing to write an interesting book with motivational interest like this recent one by Pau Gasol it is quite another to offer the panacea of success.
In any case, the exact opposite could be considered. To achieve similar levels of glory in any company, you would have to read the example and then forget it and finally stay with the unshakable spirit of its characters. Because so many other real characters, thousands of anonymous ones, can share capacity but they have not just been blessed by the imponderable perfect ally, to give him more literature, let's call it: fortune.
The third door that Alex Banayan presents us takes us directly by elevator to the top floor. There are those who decide in each field, business or sports, artistic, scientific, economic or technological, looking at the rest of the world from a very high and gigantic window through which the future of millions of ants can be seen.
I am not saying that the book is not curious, that the magically harmonious composition of the lives and destinies of the plethora of achievers who pass through these pages cannot be a positive stimulus. But I insist, the formula of repetition and example is the premise of failure.
The point is that the example of the current winner at least contributes that noséqué of effort more or less true, of the type or the type who arrived from the neighborhood and that ends up placing their idea, their smile or even their occurrence at the top of the top of their claims.
How to get to the third door converted into the elevator? Surely some of the characters in this book hide from us a timely courtship, an apparent contact or even some shady business. The point is, they provide hope. Because the truth is that they could be many others with ingenuity, creativity or with the corresponding gift.
It is just a matter of betting, tenacity and a lot of realism to consider that in a very high percentage of possibilities you will not get it, not to the top, at least. Genius is not so alien to humans. And although it is not exactly the most widespread endowment, it could be said that for each thing there would be many thousands of people who could do it the same or better than you.
That is why the doors are usually the main one, the one that tries to filter between so many guests eager to enter or the secondary one where only those who already have a bit of earned success enter. But those, the third doors with their bright and comfortable elevators only appear very occasionally.
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