Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that. " Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves. "