Walt Disney was fired for lacking creativity. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by twelve publishers. The founder of Honda says success is 99% failure.
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So most people want to avoid success. But if you look at the most successful people in the world, they are also the world's biggest failures. Like if you look at Walt Disney, for instance, he was fired from his first job as an animator because they said that he had no creativity. When you look at people like Michael Jordan, who's now a billionaire, considered the best basketball player that's ever played, he was cut from his high school basketball team. When you look at one of the most successful authors that's ever lived, J.K. rowling, the woman who wrote Harry Potter, she was reject directed from something like 12 publishers. And that book went on to sell over 500 million copies. And then Disney created an entire theme park from it. And the creator of Honda says it perfectly. He says, if you want to be successful, you have to understand that success is 99% failure. So if somebody wants to be successful, you have to understand that failure is not the opposite of success. Failure is just a part of success.