Chapter 6. The Cause Has Charisma—You Don’t Have to Be Charismatic to Be Successful

 

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.

 
 --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

She paced nervously in a seedy alley between 16th and 17th Street in San Francisco, trying to “do enough jobs” to pay her pusher, when an outrageous thought hit her around 3 A.M. “I’m out walking the streets, addicted, homeless, sleeping in the gutter, and someday I am going to be in a place where I’m supposed to be telling people about this horror. I am supposed to change things,” Norma Hotaling remembered.

“Of course, the next thought I had completely killed that hopeful idea. You’re just a whore on dope—and that is all you’ll ever be.” Norma grimaced and sighed, running her hand through ...

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