This article called "Your Self Esteem Determines Your life" was written by Brian Tracy. This article talks about how important self esteem is to your future success. "The best definition of self-esteem is, “how much you like yourself.” When you like and respect yourself, you always perform and behave better than if you did not." It is very hard to like yourself and have good self esteem when always following others. Its very hard to be happy with yourself when you decide to have no individuality and do what everyone else is doing. You know yourself, and when people decide not to be themselves, self esteem is hard to achieve. "The more you like yourself, the more confidence you have. The more you like yourself, the more efficient and effective you are in each area of your life. Self-esteem is the key to peak performance." If you follow others, and have no confidence to show individuality, then parts of your life will be lacking in success. You won't be able to follow your dreams to your full capability. Individuality and being happy with yourself leads to self esteem. This is another reason why individuality can get you closer to the American Dream/success.