What Drives Success?

In his book, Scary Close, Donald Miller acknowledges that over time he developed a mask, or a persona that kept even those closest to him from experiencing with him. As he began to peel back layers of his own personality, of shame and his masks, he had this epiphany, although he decribes it more negatively. Nevertheless, it is an insight worth considering:

Here’s a thought that haunts me: What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the…