A short motivational monologue about viewing failure as part of learning and persistence. The speaker cites high-profile examples (Thomas Edison, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Branson, Colonel Sanders) with specific counts of unsuccessful attempts to argue that one should try "as many times as it takes" until success is achieved.
Are you wondering how many times you should try? How many times you should try before you are successful? Well, let's talk about failure. Failure is in the learning. I mean, look at Thomas Edison, 10,000 times it took before he created the light bulb. Sylvester Stallone, 1500 times. He tried to sell Rocky as a script before it was actually bought. Do you know that Richard Branson started 400 companies before he was successful with a virgin? Do you know that Colonel Sanders with KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, he had 1,009 failures before he sold his recipe there? We are failing all the time. We are failing to learn from our failures. So it is about failing and doing it again. Is it your passion? Is it what you really want to be doing? Is it something that is so exciting to you that the failing is the learning? So that's something to think about. How many times should you try? As many times as it takes to get what you're trying to do out there in there. You do whatever you need to do to make it happen. That's how many times you should try.
