Failures:
A recipe for success?
Do you know they failed?
One of the most dreaded words in the dictionary
is "Failure". The word "failure" carries
a negative perception and is understood as
lacking ability to achieve
success. Is that true?
If Edison had stopped his experiment after his first failure
he would not have invented the carbon filament. Failure
is an indication that you are pushing your envelope beyond
your comfort zone. As Sochiro Honda said,"Success is
99% Failure". A success you would like to celebrate
will be preceded by many (99) failures. Your ability to
sustain a failure determines your expected success.
Also,
developing a positive attitude to learn from failures will
set you on a new path and a new journey towards your goal.
If not, failure will not be a stepping stone towards your
success.
Now,
take the quiz to identify the celebrities who used failures
as a recipe for their success.
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One of his music teachers said, "As a
composer, he is hopeless". Many of his other music
teachers also gave up on him. Many of his critics called
his symphonies as "harsh and bizzarre". 1
a. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b . Ludwig Von Beethoven
c . Johann Sebastian Bach
d . Joseph Haydn
Answer: [b]
Beethoven's work was never appreciated during his life time,
however, after his lifetime all his works are appreciated
and considered to be classics.
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His classmates voted him the "least likely
to succeed". When he decided to take acting as his
career, he could find more success finding carpentary work
than acting work at Hollywood. 1
a. Tom Hanks
b. Arnold Schwarzenegger
c. Harrison Ford
d. Jackie Chan
Answer: [c]
Harrison Ford was a second choice while casting for "Star
Wars" and "Indiana Jones" - but you know
the rest. He is one of the Hollywood heroes who is well
known across the world - even among the kids :).
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His poor performance at elementary school
made everyone to suspect that he was academically challenged.
Later, his scientifc theories were critiqued to be "worthless
and misleading". 1
a. Thomas Alva Edison
b. Isaac Newton
c. Albert Einstein
d. Charles Darwin
Answer: [c]
Einstein was not fully appreciated even after publishing
his special "Theory of Relativity". But it
did not stop him from winning the Nobel Prize for Physics
in 1921.
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He was devastated when he was not selected
for his Varsity team in his sophomore year. He was deemed
too short to play varsity basketball team during his sophomore
year. He trained hard and grew four inches by next summer
to earn a spot on the varsity roster.
a. Larry Bird
b. Michael Jordan
c. Kobe Bryant
d. Shaquille O'Neal
Answer: [b]
What can you say about a person who holds unbelievable
records in Basketball - 6 times NBA Champion, 5 times
NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), 6 times NBA Finals MVP,
3 times NBA All-Star Game MVP, 2 times Gold Medal Winner
in the Olympics, and the records go on and on...
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He was an introvert student and many of his
high school classmates did not even know he can sing. On
hearing his first album the auditon evaluator said,"You
are never going to make it as a singer, my son". 1
a. Michael Jackson
b. Steven Tyler
c. Frank Sinatra
d. Elvis Presley
Answer: [d]
The "King of Pop" has over 100 top 40 hits, 100
gold albums -55 of which went to Platinum and 25 went Multi-Platinum.
He still remains the best-selling solo artist in music history.
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These college drop outs were advised to "finish
their college before selling anything" by a big corporation. 1
a. Steve Jobs & Steve Woznaik
b. Bill Gates & Paul Allen
c. William Hewlett & David Packard
d. Robert Johnson & James Johnson
Answer: [a]
"Apple" the company founded by them, to pursue
their dreams independently, with $1000 is one of the most
admired company till date. They are the leaders in MP3 players
(iPod), Mobile Smart phones (iPhone) and Computer tablets
(iPad). The company reported an annual net revenue of 36.3
billion in 2009.
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He
was rejected by the film school (University of Southern California
School of Theater, Film and Television) three times. He later
became a director without a degree and received a honorary
degree from USC 27 years later.
a. Steven Spielberg
b. George Lucas
c. Alfred Hitchcock
d. Francis Ford Coppola
Answer: [a]
Winner of 3 Academy (Oscar) Awards for Best Director - his
movies grossed more than $8.5 billion worldwide. Three of
his films,Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park,
holds the record for highest grossed film released during
that time.
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