Last week, a man on the bus passed me a note. He did so silently, and got off the bus right after having given me the note. The note read: I can tell you the secret to your success. There was a phone number written at the bottom. Later that night I called it and asked how to be successful. The man on the other end of the phone didn't seem to have any idea what I was talking about, but maybe that's just because it was three in the morning.