Guess who: He is a very famous man today and he is not the.

Even today, many assumptions about him are wrong. He is often labeled as something he never set out to be, boxed into an identity that overlooks the risks he took and the sacrifices he made along the way. People see the success, but not the long stretch of invisibility that came before it. Friends recall years when recognition felt impossibly out of reach, when walking away would have been the easier option.