Ask HN: How do you re-invent yourself?

I think one of the great things about the united states and other such countries is that it gives lot of hope. Hope in the broad sense. We have multi billion dollar nonfiction book industry that is a proof of this where countless books are published and they sell you somebody else's success story and ultimately we buy it the hope to change things. while buying a book or aspiring to do something different than what you have been doing is one thing, following through is a completely different thing. I think the latter can be a little bit easier with mentorship rather than reading books. Learning for peoples experiences interactively than working on change in isolation.

Would like to hear from the community, from people who have been able to bring pre-meditated positive change to their lives successfully. Many thanks for sharing.