How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
Personally i improved my social and economic life after leaving my first job. Offcourse it was very devastating for me and for the next three days after sacking letter my head was blank and could not think or be able to say anything. But it is after the incident that i got business ideas that has been helping my life today. If i had continued with employment, i would still be very poor, working soo hard for too little and wasting my life away.
Am not a lone, majority of people that has been very successful in life faced insurmountable difficulties at one point in their lives. Let us look at some few of them.
Isaac Newton
He was born underweight and his father died shortly before his birth. His mother left him with grandmother in order to get married to another man. At 17, his mother removed him from school so that he can learn and do farming though he passionately hated farming. Today he is always considered great of all in the field of physics with hundreds of papers and many theories to his name.
Thomas Edison
He was told by his teachers that he was too stupid to learn anything but later went ahead to have more than 1000 patents one of them being the electric lamp. He is considered as one of the most successful inventors that ever lived. He tested thousand materials before creating the carbon-filament bulb that is one of the most useful objects to billions of people in the world.
Albert Einstein
He is considered a genius who was very famous in the field of theoretical physics.He won a Nobel prize because of his theory of relativity and changed the classical approach to physics. however, Albert Einstein was only able to speak after he was 4 years old and was only able to read after 7 years. He was thought to be mentally handicapped child, but it turned to be opposite through his persistence.
Jerry Seinfeld
When he was trying out a career in comedy, he fronze infront of his first audience and was booed and jeered off stage, a very nasty experience that can depress any public speaker. He later corrected himself and went on to become one of the most successful comedian of all time.
Abraham Lincoln
Always considered the most successful president of the United States of America. He was inspiring in his speech, abolished slave trade and saved united state. But Lincoln life was more identified with failures than success.
- He fought for election in 1832 to be elected in legislator and lost
- He started a business that badly failed
- He lost a contest to congress in 1843
- He lost a contest to congress in 1848
- He lost a bid for a U.S Senator in 1855
- Lost contest to become vice president of U.S in 1856
- He lost a bid for a U.S Senator in 1859
He ran for President of U.S in 1860 and won. He also won it again in 1864. But his failures were enough to cause any dude to surrender to fate and permanently label himself a loser.
famous Abraham Lincoln quote, ” I have a congenital aversion to failure.”
J.K Rowling
Received 12 rejections from publishers before his book ‘Harry Potter’ was published.
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