II. FAILURE DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM
“I have not failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas Alva Edison (American Inventor)
Highly successful people have this rarest quality – High tolerance for failure.
Let me explain you this through some case studies –
Ford’s first two automobile companies failed. That did not stop him from incorporating Ford Motor Company and being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the production of affordable automobiles in the world. He not only revolutionized the industrial production in the United States and Europe, but also had such influence over the 20th century economy and society. His combination of mass production, high wages and low prices to consumers has initiated a management school known as “Fordism”. He became one of the three most famous and richest men in the world during his time.
When Einstein was young his parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to quit, saying, “Einstein, you will never amount to anything!” Also he didn’t speak until he turned 4 and didn’t read until he was 7. We know him as the theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 and “for his services to Theoretical Physics”.
Before joining the NBA, Jordan was just an ordinary person, so ordinary that he was cut from his high school basketball team because of his “lack of skill”.
By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. He is a phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability and an unquenchable competitive desire. Jordan single- handedly redefined the NBA superstar.
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
It doesn’t matter if you are a scientist, an entrepreneur or an athlete all you need to do is don’t let your failure stop you. You need to keep going, no matter what happens or how big the problem comes, keep going. Learn from your mistakes and keep going.
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
Here is a small list of famous people that failed.
1. Jim Carey (Actor)
2. Katy Perry (Singer)
3. Oprah Winfrey (Media proprietor)
4. J.K. Rowling (Author) – Rejected
5. Bill Gates (Businessman)
6. Walt Disney (Entrepreneur)
7. Isaac Newton (Mathematician)
8. The Beatles (Rock Band)
Failure is that what you give definition to it. Without failing you cannot succeed. People think that failure is opposite to success because their mind is conditioned in that manner by the society. Ask any successful person what according to them is failure.
A failure is a person who has given up because of his incapability to work hard and lack of efforts that were required to succeed. No extraordinary person was ever born without failing at least once. Those who stop trying after they fail are the failures; those who keep going are the winners.
“The key to success is failure” – Michael Jordan (Athlete)
“If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success” – Charles Barkley (Basketball player)
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners”
- Robert Kiyosaki (Businessman)
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