Biographies shouldn't be read as a manual to learn what made those women and men successful. Read them as a lesson in understanding people, personalities, trai

Biographies shouldn't be read as a manual to learn what made those women and men successful. Read them as a lesson in understanding people, personalities, traits, follies and to give an occasional spark to the fire within you. You'll never be able to replicate success by following what someone else did, but you can almost always find something inspiring about how they went about doing it.