Success has never been achieved without a certain amount of time, practice, and tenacity. In Anthem, Equality finally succeeds, “after more days and trials than we can count...” (Rand, 59), and he achieves his goal of creating light for his society. Equality spent hours experimenting with different chemicals and mechanics to finally succeed. His practice with different materials allowed him to excel past everyone. Practice is proven to work in the book Outliers when phycologists did a study on musician and their practice time. They proved that, “...the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder,” (Gladwell, 39). Practice may not always go as planned though, but the most