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Opinion
Both came up hardscrabble. Nothing came easily for either of them. Jackson was an orphan, raised by uncles in the Western Virginia wilderness. Ill prepared for a chance appointment to West Point, he was mocked by his classmates as a bumpkin and a rube. But through a fierceness to succeed he rose steadily in his class, paid his dues heroically in the Mexican War, and developed over time in the unique qualities that prepared him for his encounter with history in 1861.
The “books” didn’t come easily to Dale Earnhardt, either. At 18, he was a high school dropout, married with a child, working in a garage and welding on the side.
They learned their respective crafts the hard way, through uncommon discipline, a competitive doggedness, and thousands of hours beneath the midnight oil. When opportunity finally came, they were both prepared and they went at it with something approach
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