Every once in a while, I'll think back wistfully on failing to become a doctor. To encourage my self-pity to hurry up and run its course, I just remind myself:

MOTIVATIONAL PRODUCTS REALLY CAN

MAKE YOU WILDLY SUCCESSFUL.

(IF YOU SELL THEM, THAT IS...)

Motivational products are anything but. While they briefly raise hopes with induced delusions about the untapped potential greatness within, sooner or later reality intrudes, and you realize the only people made rich and successful by motivational products are the ones selling them to gullible chumps (i.e. you).