Growing up, in South Central Virginia, a young Earl Johnson often failed to understand the real meaning of the word - success. The fact that some people were considered successful did not motivate or inspire him to maximize his potential. "In reality, I failed to reflect on what real success was," he would later say. When a seventh-grade teacher asked the class to write a paper on what they wanted to do in life, Earl had no clue. He was dumbfounded,...