“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
We all admire a lot of people for their success. But before their success, they too experienced epic failure in their life. We celebrate their success, feel proud, but often overlook the path that got them there, a path marked with number of failures. It’s our chance to learn from them, and accept failure as a chance to learn.
Can you imagine your childhood without Disney? I don’t know about others but it seemed black and white to me. I get chills down my spineby even thinking about it. There would’ve no Disney princesses, no Micky mouse or Hannah Montana, NOTHING!Well it could easily have been if Walt had listened to his former newspaper editor. The editor told Walt that “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas”. Surprising! Isn’t it? This is the same man who filled our childhood with number of amazing and colourful stories.
As it is rightly said, “no one can stop a man who is determined to prove himself not to the world but to his own eyes”! Undeterred, old Walt went to create the cultural icon that bears his name “WALT DISNEY”, sounds like a brand to me. Despite being one of the most influential people of the 20th century, Disney endured many failures before creating “The happiest place on earth”.
And now he is known as an extraordinary successful creative whose visions as an animator, filmmaker and theme park developer changed entertainment in the 20th century and beyond. His road to success was paved by an unhappy childhood and countless business failures or setbacks.
Yet, Disney’s take on failure was:
“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you are young, because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it, I have never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I have never been afraid”.
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