Success Is Not Achieved in a Vacuum

We need to always remember that we never achieve success alone. There are people all around us who help make it happen.

Ben Carson was just another kid trying to survive. Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and an even worse self-esteem. He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5 th grade" and no one held much hope for his future. How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?

His mother.

When Circumstances Change

Change isn