Fail to Succeed

Imagine yourself as a star, a person that everyone looks up to. Imagine yourself being paid millions to do something you want to do. Imagine yourself being one of the most important people in the world. That's how the minority like Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and many more felt when they were on their rise to the top. Many people don't know that these great people all share one thing in common. They all failed. Every single one of them in their early ages were denied by their friends, teachers, coaches, etc. Through the toughness of having failure on their minds, it is exactly what got them where they are now.

Michael Jordan. What do you think when you hear that name? Do you think of a  basketball superstar? Do you think about the big celebrity he is? Well those are all true but it wasn't close to being that in high school. In high school he was a scrub, a person who wasn't good enough to make the high school team. He thought he was that good but turns out the coaches didn't see it in him that he was only an ordinary high school-er. After realizing that he hadn't made the team he got very upset, to the point where he cried in his room for days. Later he found out that being upset about it wouldn't help. That he'd have to work hard to get where he wanted to. So he worked and worked and the next season made the team. I learned a valuable lesson from his story. That you should never give up n your dreams, to push through the tough times, and work hard to achieve your goals.

Another very famous and possibly smartest ever, also failed. His name is Albert Einstein. Known as the smartest person that figured out that light travels faster than sound and that E=MC squared he wasn't always that smart. In grade school he has the worst grades in the class, he was thought to have mental problems, and everyone thought that he would never make it through the real world. But after dropping out at the age of 15 he had already started his work on theories and seemingly impossible math problems. What I learned from Albert's story is that people can doubt you and put you down but no matter what, you decide what you do with your life. You can decide to give up and accept failure. He took failure very well, worked hard and now is the smartest person known to man.

After learning about these amazing peoples stories it gets me to one question and one in particular. Do I have to fail to be successful? Many if not all of the greatest people in mankind failed to be the best in the beginning. I live to want to be the best, to be payed good money for something I want to do, and want to be looked up to by millions or even billions. There were many lessons to learn from the stories of failure and me knowing that could help me become more successful in school, sports, and the world.



Stories Found from-
http://avinashgamerboy.artician.com/blog/2009/09/famous-people-who-failed-but-succeeded

Works Cited

"Famous People Who Failed but Succeeded | Avinash_gamerboy's Blog on Artician." Famous People Who Failed but Succeeded | Avinash_gamerboy's Blog on Artician. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.