Friends of Quinn

Success takes many different shapes and forms.  The road to success has many different paths.  You have to choose the one that fits you best.  It's kind of a cliche but it's true.
 
One of the key principles as you go down your road is: don't compare yourself to other people.

This tends to happen a lot with people who have learning differences: we tend to compare ourselves to people who are better than us at certain things, and then we fail at trying to do what we aren’t good at.
 
 It’s like comparing yourself to the smartest man or the strongest man in the world -- it makes you feel bad.  You can't compare yourself to the president of the United States.  You are your own person.  

When you have LDs you may start to compare yourself with people because you wonder how different you are.  “Am I like this person”, or “should I be like that person” eventually leads you into a dark hole, because then you start to try to be like someone else.  And you realize that you can't.  You’re setting yourself up for failure.
 
We tend to focus on other people's strengths, looking at other people and wanting what they have. What we forget is that they also have their weaknesses.  And we have our strengths! We have to focus on what we know how to do more than what we don’t know how to do.
 
I got great advice from my uncle, a Buddhist. He taught me “you are your own person, you are like no one else.”
 
This is how you become successful: by being your own person.