So you are failed in std 10th or 12th, Maybe more than once. You may have been told you have no talent, you are not capable of studying or are never going to "make bright future”. Well don't be discouraged. The following are stories of other people who failed multiple time in their life and were told the same thing or something similar and went on to be major successes! You might just recognize a few:
Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.
Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching.” In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, “I was considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect”
The Vice President of Columbia told this actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor - Harrison Ford, who later became the most successful actor, director and producer of Hollywood and winner of lots of awards
Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" They were talking about the Beatles, that later became commercially most successful English Rock band of all time.
Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" – Beethoven, who became the most famous and influential composer of all time.
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney, later whose imagination gave the greatest character of all time “Mickey Mouse” and established the first amusement park of the world that is Disney land which is still considered as number one amusement park of the world.
Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything". Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked. He was none other than Thomas Edison who invented light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera because of which we can watch movies today, and became the one of the richest person of the world.
Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" They were talking about the Beatles, that later became commercially most successful English Rock band of all time.
Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" – Beethoven, who became the most famous and influential composer of all time.
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney, later whose imagination gave the greatest character of all time “Mickey Mouse” and established the first amusement park of the world that is Disney land which is still considered as number one amusement park of the world.
Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything". Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked. He was none other than Thomas Edison who invented light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera because of which we can watch movies today, and became the one of the richest person of the world.
Failed the sixth grade - Winston Churchill who became the best leader of British during the second world war and the only British prime minister to win noble price in literature and also known as father of literature and his literature has now became the syllabus for Arts students.
Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" - Albert Einstein a world changing scientist who doesn’t need any kind of introduction.
Did poorly in school and failed at running the family farm - Isaac Newton another world changing scientist who doesn’t need any kind of introduction.
Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W. Woolworth who later started a retail store by the name of Woolworth’s that became the biggest retail store chain of 20th century.
Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan who became one of the best national basket ball player of US and owner of the wellknown basket ball team Charlotte Bobcats
Auditioned for All My Children and many other movies and programs and got rejected - Julia Roberts who became the world renowned actress of all time.
Received 30 rejections and the author threw it in the trash. Luckily his wife fished it out again and encouraged him to resubmit it. The book was Carrie - the author Stephen King that became one of the bestseller novel and later a Hollywood movie was made based on this novel.
Bill Gates didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn't work, Gates' later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.
Steven Spielberg - This household name dropped out of high school and applied to attend film school three times but was unsuccessful due to his C grade average.
Soichiro Honda - The founder of Honda was turned down for an engineering job by Toyota after World War Two.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita - These two were the founders of Sony, but one of their first products was an electric rice cooker. They only sold 100 or so of these cookers because they tended to burn rice rather than cook it.
These brothers battled depression and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there. These brothers were none other than Orville and Wilbur Wright who are well known as Wright brothers.
It's hard to imagine film without the iconic Charlie Chaplin, but his act was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because they felt it was a little too nonsensical to ever sell.
As you can see, these are just a few of the people who tried again and again after getting failure in their life and refused to listen to the criticism or the "experts".
They succeeded because despite their failures they never gave up which eventually led them to succeed.
If they could do it - so can you!
Unfortunately in our society or we can say in our system, it is considered that students who secure good marks in exam are intelligent and those who can’t get good marks or fail are poor. Well, honestly speaking it is not the fact. It is not compulsory that each and every student must be good in study and must get good marks. Some time it depends on the interest level of the student that he/she may not be good in study but may be expert in some other things like sports, arts, drawing, music, dance etc.
Getting educated doesn’t mean getting good marks. Marks are important but the most important part is KNOWLEDGE. Marks reflect the outcome of the answer sheet, but Knowledge reflects the person. Having knowledge and getting failed is not bad, but getting failed with lack of knowledge is bad.
However, as we know, nowadays education is an inevitable part of our life. For any person, be it any career, be it any position, education is must. But does that mean if you fail in your school your career is over??? Well, that’s not the fact. You have to understand that it is just the beginning and not the ending. If you fail once don’t get disappointed with failure because life doesn’t end, try again and this time try to give your best shot
There is always a better way for you it’s just you need to work more to get it. Have a positive approach to the goal. Go get the thing if not got it earlier.
Never give up believing in yourself!!!
