David Archuleta was 17 and doubting himself after American Idol when fans kept handing him copies of The Alchemist. Reading it made him realize he'd been limiting himself. He decided to try anyway and exceeded what he thought he could do.
So who introduced you to this book? I don't remember, actually. No. How long ago was it? It was when I was 17. I was just off of the American Idol tour and I kept getting this book from fans. People would just say, hey, you need to read this book. We think you would really like it. And I got like three copies. Why do you think they thought you would like it? I think people could tell, like, I was the shy boy who. It was like, I was very innocent. I was very. It was like big eyed. It just like, wow, this is so exciting. I'm in a completely new world and I think a lot of people could probably sense that I didn't know what I was doing. In my head I'm like, there's no way I'm gonna make it on this show. There's no way that I'm better than any of these people. But I was just like, I'm not gonna know what I'm capable of if I don't allow myself to even try. And then I was like, whoa. I completely exceeded my own expectations, and I thought these were my limits, and they clearly weren't that. So that was always my. That was my theme when I was on the show was I thought I was done. I thought my story was going to end like 15 steps ago and I'm still here.
