We cannot be authentic if we’re trying to imitate someone else. Sounds simple enough, right?

And yet our default position in life seems set to following others in order to live a story worth telling.

There’s a place for leadership – and a place for following – to a point. But if we are ever going to discover how God has wired us to succeed, we’ll need to step away from following in order to become the person God wired us to be.