Successful People's Failure Stories
You may remember that I have included the failure stories of companies in my previous articles. Now I want to focus on people. In a period when individuals come to the fore, entrepreneurship rises, new ideas are created by individuals rather than institutions, and future projections are discussed with the millennium age, the lessons and achievements we can take from the stories of success and failure are very valuable. While doing this, one of our greatest needs is to examine the stories of successful individuals, to gain strength and inspiration from them, and to create new motivational areas.
For this article, I specifically selected some of the most popular ones. My goal is to bring you together with new stories in the other articles of the series.
Walt Disney:
Walt Disney, the famous creator of Mickey Mouse, dropped out of school at a young age and wanted to join the army like his peers of similar age at the time. But he couldn't even do that. Laugh-o-Gram Studios, one of his later projects, went bankrupt due to his incompetence in business management. On top of that, he was fired from the newspaper where he worked for a period because his creativity was questioned. However, in the continuation of these stories, he created Disney studios and produced productions created with common and bright ideas for the memories of children's dreams, and enabled the creation of works that generations will love. I am sure that it will continue to entertain the world and have good times in future generations.
In the Disney project that came after these failures, Walt Disney opened up our horizons with the following words:
“.. we have been moving forward without looking back for a very long time. We open new doors and do new things. Because we are curious… and curiosity leads us to new paths.”
Never stop looking ahead and keeping our curiosity.
Steve Jobs:
We've all heard that Apple was founded by two people in a garage in America. Today, it's a company with more than 132,000 employees and more than $256 billion in revenue. We cannot imagine that there was a time when Steve Jobs, the founder of the company and the key person to come to this day, was fired from his own company. Imagine the destruction that will come when you are fired from the company you founded. However, Steve Jobs never gave up and continued to focus on what he does best. By launching and making successful startups like Pixar and Next, he returned to his CEO position at Apple and became a legend.
As he himself said in 2005, being fired from Apple turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him, although he didn't realize it at the time. While writing the stories as individuals, we can focus on the bad events in some moments and slow down the steps about the future and fall into pessimism. That's when you remember the comeback Steve Jobs created.
Michael Jordan:
Michael Jordan is one of the most famous basketball players in the world. He is famous for his legendary achievements. However, an anecdote he shared in his Nike advertisement allows us to look at him from a completely different perspective: “I missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I lost almost 300 matches. I missed winning the match 26 times and we lost. I have failed and lost many times in my life. That's why I won."
Most of us believe that Jordan's basketball skills come from his natural talents. However, basketball coaches say that it was very difficult for Jordan to reach the high rate of fire and jump level they expected from him, and Jordan trained harder than any of his teammates to overcome this.
Take a look at the world's most famous basketball players and football players, and even their talents, and you will see that there are athletes who train and discipline more than anyone else. Keep in mind that the efforts and efforts of those who have dreams lie at the heart of the returns arising from the stories of failure.