Dear Reader,

When I first began to think about success, I believed—like many of us do—that it was about speed. The faster you moved, the sooner you achieved. The world around us celebrates the "overnight star," the startup that scales in a year, the influencer who seems to rise from nowhere. It is tempting to think that speed is everything.

But life taught me otherwise. Success, I discovered, is never truly instant. What looks like a sudden breakthrough is usually the result of years of quiet effort, patient struggle, and countless failures that no one else sees. The "overnight success" is, in truth, built slowly, day after day, brick by brick.

This book, High Speed Success: The Long Road to Overnight Success, is my attempt to share that paradox with you. It is about understanding that speed is not the absence of patience but the reward of persistence. It is about redefining what it means to "arrive quickly"—by realising that even the fastest journeys are only possible when a solid road has been patiently built.

If you are in a hurry right now—racing against time, comparing yourself to others, or frustrated at how long things are taking—I want to remind you: you are not behind. You are simply on the real path, the one that lasts.

So let us walk this road together. It may feel long, but I promise—it is the only road that truly leads to high-speed success.

With warmth and persistence,

Peter Parker