Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Today, I want to talk to you about transformation and the three steps to igniting your own.

Let's illustrate through a story, a true story, an iconic

story. The story is about a schoolboy with the first name of a girl. In class, he's the teacher's

pet. He's a straight-A student. He sits in the front row. Each day, he wears a blue suit with a

white shirt and necktie. His quiet intelligence and poetic appearance

make him the darling of the adults. But to the schoolmates, he's a laughingstock. He is shy and

withdrawn, introspective, and subjected to countless phobias and spells of terror. His refuge

is the public library. His escape from the threat of reality

is the literature in which he devours hour on end.

When intimidated by other boys, he will not fight.

He cannot fight.

He is called a sissy.

He is ridiculed for his sallow complexion

and his delicate physique and his funny way of talking.

He is the ritual object of amusement.

Sometimes he is sprayed with cheap perfume

and regularly beaten bloody.

But still, he will not and cannot defend himself.

He goes to the movies and sits alone.

He wishes with all his hearts to be like the heroes of the screen,

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