[greggarious]

I know a lot of famous people. (STEM people, not the arts -- I'm not literally sitting in a cafe with Taylor Swift despite what Twitter may have told you)

I also knew a lot of people who never became famous who drove me to become an underground hacker.

Be EXTREMELY wary of any success story that doesn't give specific strategies beyond "work hard" lest you realize that selective silence boosted someone who's... not a monster... but shows up at the finish line to espouse ideas they shot down for decades.