12. You probably can't be whatever you want, but if you're really lucky, and you work really hard, you can be exactly who you are.
... Which is all most people ever want, anyway. Grandiose visions of being something spectacular -- and spectacularly removed from someone's skill set and personality, etc. -- can be measured in proportion to how much the person in question feels he/she is lacking. The funny reality is that people who accomplish incredible things never think of them as incredible; they think of them as normal. It's that integration into "normalcy" that makes it a pattern, which makes it a routine, which makes it a habit, which ultimately makes it a product. That drive and consistency is born of one thing and one thing only: doing something in alignment with who you truly are. It is a privilege, albeit an extraordinary challenge, to wake up to yourself -- and even more so to find someone who loves that person, a job that utilizes that person, and a life that fully realizes that person, even if you denied him/her along the way.