Walt Disney was fired for lacking creativity. Michael Jordan got cut from his high school team. J.K. Rowling's manuscript was rejected twelve times. The speaker argues failure isn't the opposite of success—it's how you get there.
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Are you afraid of failing, though? I want to tell you a secret about failure. The most successful people in the world are also the world's biggest failures. Walt Disney was fired from his dream job of being an animator because they said he wasn't creative enough. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team because he wasn't good enough. And J.K. rowling, who wrote Harry Potter, was rejected by 12 publishers. And that book went on to sell 500 million copies. The creator of Honda once said that success is 99% fail. So remember, failure is not the opposite of success. Failure is part of success.