Most real (good) biographies are not written by the successful person itself(autobiographies). In most real biographies you learn a lot about the sacrifices th

Most real (good) biographies are not written by the successful person itself(autobiographies). In most real biographies you learn a lot about the sacrifices the person had to do in order to be successful(success meaning getting the outcome they wanted to get). Most people won't make the sacrifices because they want the output, but not the way to get there. You see the Ads? Get slim and strong without effort. That is what people want. For example, Mother Teresa was successful in helping hundreds of thousands of people, that was what she wanted, but did tremendous sacrifices for getting there. I personally met Vicente Ferrer and talked with him(I was very young and was shocked for what he told me) when Indian usurers wanted to kill him or at least exile him from India. He had to renounce Spanish citizenship to continue his work and was very successful in the end. My father met Almodovar when other people called him a failure, shouted and insulted him on the street for making the films he did. It is only thanks to early aviation pioneers, most of them died in accidents, that planes fly. Explorers like Christopher Colombus or Livingstone changed history. But Livingstone wife died in one of his travels, Colombus became bankrupted following his dream. He had to give his child in adoption. Gutenberg spent his entire life perfecting a machine, the printing press, that only worked well after he had died. Elon Musk personal life is a drama. But he is hell bent on getting to Mars and he will get there. Period.