Let’s talk about failures

Let’s talk about failures.

There is no man in this Earth who has never failed. Prove me wrong and you are on your way to another failure.

The bitter truth about life is we are going to fail in one way or another. The bittersweet reality is that every failure is not that bad after all if you learn how to learn. You may hate failing but do not be afraid of another failure even if it is hard. The greatest people on Earth suffered and surpassed the greatest failures in Life. *the following is adapted from Chicken Soup for the Soul*

Consider this…
After Fred Astaire’s first screen test the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, “Can’t act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!” Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer.

Charles Darwin, father of the Theory of Evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, “I was considered by all my masters and by my father a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.”

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Walt Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything.

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. His teacher described him as “mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.” He was expelled and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.

Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts. [1330 strikeouts, 714 homeruns]

Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bach’s ten-thousand-word story about a “soaring” seagull, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, before Macmillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H, only to have it rejected by twenty-one publishers before Morrow decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a blockbuster movie and a highly successful television series.
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I know failing is nothing gracious. I know how shameful it feels sometimes. *sigh* I am on the borderline between success and failure. And I believe that success will pull me to its side…I will always believe.