Turning Failure Into Success

You are better than those people you admire and consider great!

Yes, Virginia.  Think of these:  Winston Churchill failed in sixth grade in school.  (Be glad you did not!)

“You’re stupid to learn anything,” said Thomas Edison’s teacher to him.  (His teacher had a foul mouth maybe  and did not know how to motivate a poor performer in the class!).

   Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven. (He had  a short tongue maybe and could not pronounce a word correctly and clearly!  This condition made reading difficult.)

     Louis Pasteur was a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies.  He ranked 15^th out of 22 students in Chemistry.  (Like other students I hate Chemistry as well as geometry, trigonometry, physics, economics and statistics.  Hence, I took up Advertising as major study in college because it has no subject with – try and –ics at the end.)

     After his first audition, Sidney Poiitier was told by a casting director this:  “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?”  (Perhaps, that happened when racial discrimination was very much a way of life in the U.S.  That crumbled many decades ago after several centuries.. The movie “Guess Who’s Coming To Diner” spoke of racial equality as its theme.  Incidentally, he starred in that movie as a lawyer and married a white, beautiful and young lady.  It was a black and white love story!)

     When Lucille Ball began studying to be an actress in 1927, she was told by the head instructor of John Murray Anderson Drama School to try any other profession.  (This can happen to people with no work experience on their biodata sheet)

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.  (He was a bad egg in the basket!)

     If Churchill, Edison, Einstein, Pasteur, Poitier, Ball and Jordan had no determination, resilience and perseverance, our world would be uninteresting and uninspiring.

What they had gone through can happen today to everyone.

     If the three- the d-r-p are the driving forces behind their success, the same can happen to everyone.  Just do not raise our white banner.

     A person with a propensity for success thinks and behaves like one.  He dreams big, too, and has faith in his abilities no matter what other people say on the contrary or how many times he has failed in the past and will fail again.

     He faces all difficulties and overcomes them to achieve his goals, is another.

     A mindset of this kind draws himself to elements.  By this word means “opportunities and people” wherein his worth and mettle will be recognized and used to the fullest.

     He knows, too, what he wants and puts a plan for it by observing the life of successful people and asks them how they made it – or he makes an exhaustive research on them.

     A person who sees beauty in failure and learns from it will be successful at the next knock of opportunity that comes his way.  It is a pipe dream for many because the do not see that in failure there is beauty.    They just do not know how to find it.

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