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Do you want to stop schooling because you keep failing your exam? You want to commit suicide because you failed your project? You want to quit because you think you are a failure? Then ive got the worst news for you today that you are about to kill your own success my dear.Maybe no one ever told you the truth that there is no success without failure. That failure and success has the same route or path.The secret of the route is you have to meet failure before success. Most of the great people that we love and appreciate what they have done did not get things as easy as they seem.Just take a good look at struggles these great people passed through before they succeeded
1.Albert Einstein
He didn’t speak until he was four and didn’t read until he was seven. He was subsequently expelled from school and was not admitted to the Zurich Polytechnic School. Long story short, he came around.He is regarded as one of the greatest scientists the world has ever seen.
2.Bill Gates
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and he started a business with Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data, which flopped. Luckily, they tried their hand at business again and this time Microsoft was born.Gates is now worth over $80 billion.
3.Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was young and entered war, he entered as a Captain but came back as a much lower Private. Later on, he tried to start up a ton of businesses, all of which failed, and before becoming president, he lost several runs for public office.
4.MIchael Jordan
He was cut from his high school basketball team. He once said, “I have missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the gam winning shot, and I have missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
The life of these great people really tells us that to get to the top, you have to fall a few times. You fall nine times get up ten times.Yeah its true failure is such a bad thing to find yourself in, it really hurt but please dont let it derail you. Get onto your feet and tell yourself that you will make it and never give up on whatever you doing."Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
Failure is final if you refuse to get up, dust yourself off and get back in the game. The key is to build on the lessons learned and forge ahead.If you get slammed by a failure and bounce back that is called resilience. If you learn, adjust and actually return better than before, then you have grit. Nassim Taleb captures this idea well in his book Anti-Fragile.Get up and start over again for YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE!!!