"Driven to Succeed, starts with Anderson’s experiences and struggles growing up in the Jane and Finch community during the mid-80s, and continues through his life becoming a young father, the first black lawyer at the TTC, and a member of Shelburne Town Council.
“Many of us find ourselves wanting to be liked, sometimes we don’t act like ourselves or we act the way we perceive a groups want us to, and we tend to lose ourselves,” said Anderson. “There were times where I felt like I wasn’t really being myself just because I wanted to be accepted. As I’ve become older and further advanced in my career I started to make it a point to try to resist that temptation of losing myself, just to gain acceptance into a group.”"