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One of the most creative geniuses of the 20th century was once fired from a newspaper because he was told he lacked creativity. Trying to persevere, Disney formed his first animation company, which was called Laugh-O-Gram Films. He raised $15,000 for the company but eventually was forced to close Laugh-O-Gram, following the close of an important distributor partner.
Desperate and out of money, Disney found his way to Hollywood and faced even more criticism and failure until finally, his first few classic films started to skyrocket in popularity.
2. Arianna Huffington:
It’s hard to believe that one of the most recognizable names in online publications was once rejected by three dozen major publishers. Huffington’s second book, which she tried to publish long before she created the now ubiquitously recognizable Huffington Post empire, was rejected 36 times before it was eventually accepted for publication.
Even Huffington Post itself wasn’t a success right away. In fact, when it launched, there were dozens of highly negative reviews about its quality and its potential. Obviously, Huffington overcame those initial bouts of failure and has cemented her name as one of the most successful outlets on the web.
3.Thomas Edison :
We’ve all heard the name before. This famous American is attributed with failing over 10,000 times to invent a commercially viable electric lightbulb, but he didn’t give up. When asked by a newspaper reporter if he felt like a failure and if he should give up, after having gone through over 9,000 failed attempts, Edison simply stated “Why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitely over 9,000 ways an electric lightbulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp.”
Life Story Of Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein's name has become synonymous with genius but his contributions to science might have been cut short had he stayed in Germany, where he was born on March 14, 1879.
It was 1933 and a charismatic politician called Adolf Hitler had just become Chancellor.
Einstein, a Jew, learned that his name was on a Nazi list of people earmarked for assassination and a bounty had been put on his head.
One German magazine even included him on a list of enemies of the state under the phrase: “Not yet hanged.”
He had already been used to being something of a migrant as, by the age of 17, his parents had already taken him to live in Italy and Switzerland, where he began training to be a physics and maths teacher in 1896.
Einstein qualified and became a Swiss citizen but couldn’t find a teaching job so began work as an assistant in the Swiss Patent Office in 1901, where he was passed over for promotion because he had not got to grips with “machine technology”.
However, much of his work was linked to the synchronising of time by mechanical and electrical means, which sowed the seeds that would later transform the understanding of the universe.
His first theoretical paper – on the capillary forces of a straw – was published in a respected journal that same year and by 1905 he was awarded his doctorate by the University of Zurich.
The scientist’s work began to pour out of him – by the end of that year, he published no less than four revolutionary papers on matter and energy; the photoelectric effect; Brownian motion; and the idea that perhaps defined him most of all – special relativity.
Despite the acclaim that he began to accrue, he continued working at the patent office until 1909.
Two years later his work on relativity made him world famous when he concluded that the trajectory of light arriving on Earth from a star would be bent by the gravity of the Sun.
His conclusions ripped up the ideas of Newtonian mechanics which had stood since the 17th century.
They are modest, intelligent, considerate and have a feel for art. [Einstein on the Japanese]
He returned to Germany where he held several prestigious positions, including president of the German Physical Society.
By 1921, his groundbreaking theories had transformed the basics of modern physics and he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
However, it was not given for his most famous work, that of relativity, because it remained too controversial.
Instead, the judges used his explanation of the photoelectric effect to explain the award.
The famous scientist began to lecture worldwide and travelled to Singapore, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Japan, where he spoke before the emperor and declared: “Of all the people I have met, I like the Japanese most, as they are modest, intelligent, considerate and have a feel for art.”
Wherever he went by this stage he was greeted like a head of state or a rock star, with crowds thronging to hear him and cannons fired to salute his arrival.
The rise of Hitler and Nazism persuaded him to move to the US, where he later shed his avowal of pacifism and wrote to President Roosevelt urging him to press ahead with construction of a nuclear bomb to ensure the Germans did not get there first.
There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn. [Robert Oppenheimer on Einstein]
He later said this letter was his life’s biggest regret because nuclear weapons had such a fierce capacity for destruction.
He began work at Princeton University and became a US citizen in 1940 (his third passport) where he was a strident critic of racism, calling it America’s “worst disease”.
Albert Einstein died of internal bleeding on April 17, 1955, aged 76, which was marked with headlines around the world.
But his story did not end there - his brain was removed by the pathologist to try to understand what made him so intelligent.
At his memorial, Robert Oppenheimer, the developer of the atomic bomb which Einstein had backed, said: “He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness.
“There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn.”
Why Do Most Of The Success Stories Begin With Failure ?
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Did you know that the first entrepreneurial venture of Bill Gates bombed? Still, this failure did not preclude his dream to make it big. He learnt from his past mistakes and rose above all challenges to lay the foundation of success, what is today known as Microsoft.
It sounds vaguely philosophical, but the most inspirational success stories have resulted from failures.
Each one of us desires for the stars. There’s nothing wrong about wishing success to kiss your feet. Unfortunately, unlike whipping up your instant coffee in minutes, success takes its own sweet time to come to you. It is a journey that is an amalgam of perseverance, positive thinking and most importantly, failures. Ah, there it is. Failure - the most dreaded word in our life’s dictionary.
Failures and success are the two sides of the same coin. When you flip the coin, the probability of experiencing failures is same as that of tasting success. So, whether you like it or not, failure is impossible to ignore. But, it is definitely not impossible to learn from your failures!
Just imagine - if Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs had given up on their experiments, could we have been enjoying our life without the light bulbs or iPhones?
Failures introduce us to the most successful ingredients of success -
1. Discovering True Self
It is during the darkest, the most frustrating and the most depressing moments of our life that we discover our inner self – our strengths and weaknesses.
2. Learn from Mistakes
Failures communicate feedback on our mistakes. They give us time to brood on our mistakes; to improvise on them through trials and errors; and to ensure not to repeat them again.
3. Explore New Things
Failures give us an opportunity to try things differently the next time. It helps in polishing your approach and taking more intelligent and calculated risks in the future. It shows what works and what doesn’t.
4. Gives a Reality Check
If you have been acting too overconfident or blind in your pursuit of success, you may not be able to foresee probable defeats or challenges coming your way. However, a knee-jerk reaction in the form of failures can keep you grounded.
5. Not the End of the World
Yes, failure is bad. It is one of the worst things that could happen in your way to success. What really matters is to fix your mistakes and move ahead in your life. The famous literary poet and critic, George Edward Woodberry aptly describes this, "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
Remember, success is only a temporary state of mind. Once you reach the peak of your life, business or career, your learning becomes stagnant. Success makes you complacent. It rusts your skills. It is intoxicating like wine, but it bereaves you of your judgment.
The real learnings come through the failures that you have encountered during the process of getting there on the top.
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