Every failure is a great moment in our life,
because it allows us to learn and grow from it!
Even more and more companies nowadays are shifting to a new mentality by
allowing their employees to make mistakes, because they noticed that if people
are afraid to make mistakes, creativity and innovation die and the company’s
progress slows down. At the end of the day it comes down to this:
Success is the
result of right decisions. Right decisions are the result of experience, and
experience is the result of wrong decisions.
Here is a story of a famous “failure” that literally failed his way to success: •
Lost job, 1832
• Defeated for legislature, 1832
• Failed in business, 1833
• Elected to legislature, 1834
• Sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) died, 1835
• Had nervous breakdown, 1836
• Defeated for Speaker, 1838
• Defeated for nomination for Congress, 1843
• Lost re-nomination, 1848
• Rejected for Land Officer, 1849
• Defeated for Senate, 1854
• Defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856
• Again defeated for Senate, 1858
• Elected President, 1860
This is the story of
Abraham Lincoln
, a man we would not exactly characterize
as a failure, would we?
And here are some other famous failures:
Michael Jordan:
cut from his high
school basketball team.
Steven Spielberg:
rejected from film school three times.
Walt Disney:
fired by the editor of a newspaper for lacking ideas and
imagination.
Albert Einstein:
He learned to speak at a late age and performed poorly in
school.
John Grisham:
first novel was rejected by sixteen agents and twelve publishing
houses.
J.K. Rowling
: was a divorced, single mother on welfare while writing Harry
Potter.
Stephen King:
his first book “Carrie” was rejected 30 times. He threw it in the
trash. His wife retrieved it from the trash and encouraged him to try again.
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