Celebrities that managed to overcome the difficulties
Introduction
Are you experiencing a failure? Not only once, but repeatedly failed? It is not alone, because there are many people in the same condition. However, we must consider failure as normal in life so as not to have to regret at every moment. In fact, many of the people who know and succeed today, failed at some stage of their lives. Here is a brief biography of 10 people of world fame that failed before achieving success. Bill Gates: Before success with Microsoft, a figure as well known as Bill Gates, had lived the failure. Gates, who comes from a middle class family, began working with Paul Gilbert and Paul Allen. They created Traf-O-Data, a data processing machine.
Developing
The first company he formed worked quite well and could generate income. However, when they tried to present the data processing engine to Seattle Country, the machine was damaged. From there, Bill Gates never surrendered and finally, now together with his partner, he has managed to create Microsoft, whose benefits are perceived by almost all in the mute. Oprah Winfrey: Coronada as the busiest person in the world, Oprah Winfrey has also experienced the bitterness of failure. As a child, Oprah lived with her mother, born of a family with a hostile atmosphere.
She was sexually abused since she was 9 years old with the perpetrators within her own family (her cousin and uncle of her). Even at the age of 14, Oprah became pregnant, but her son died during childbirth. From the incident, Oprah lived with his father. He continued to provide support for her to concentrate on school until she obtained a scholarship at Tennessee State University, specializing in communication. Before being known by the public and having her own interview program, Oprah also felt the bitterness of being rejected by the media because she was black and it was said that she was less adequate to appear on television.
Now Oprah is very successful, especially in The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is seen by the world community. Colonel Sanders: His face is known worldwide for being the inventor of crunchy fried chicken that many people like. Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC also felt the pain of business failure. Before selling fried chicken, Sanders had been a firefighter, a tire repair, insurance seller and also chef. In fact, he discovered the secret recipe of a delicious fried chicken at the age of half a century. Ten years later, he began his own business by opening a franchise restaurant where he sold his fried chicken.
The restaurant, located at Salt Lake City, Utah, experienced a three -time increase in sales per year. Of Colonel Sanders, we can learn that it is never too late to succeed even though you are no longer young. JK Rowling: It seems that there is no one who does not know the figure of the creator of the magical world of Harry Potter. But not many people know that behind his success, he has felt the hardness of the treatment that the world gave him. Rowling began writing books by Harry Potter since 1990, the same year his mother died after a long treatment due to sclerosis complications for 10 years.
Two years later, she married and had a daughter. Unfortunately, the following year she had to divorce her husband and become a single mother. It was then that she felt the greatest failure of her life, because she had no job, she was divorced and did not have much money to raise her daughter. She several times she felt depressed due to the circumstances that happened to her. However, Rowling became a writer whose books were translated into several languages and read by many people, even filmed also. Rowling is now considered one of the most successful women in the United Kingdom.
Stephen King: One more story of famous writers who have experienced failure before success. He is Stephen King. Before many people read her work, the editors had rejected him 30 times for her first novel entitled Carrie. Even King once felt very boring and threw the draft of his work in the trash. Fortunately, his wife always believed in his dreams, so she picked up the draft and continued encouraging King. While writing a novel, he also worked as an English teacher. He also wrote stories to complement his income.
Now, he has managed to sell around 350 million copies of his novels because he was always persistent and never surrenders. Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein is known as an intelligent scientist with his theory of relativity. Many theories are used as the basis of natural sciences, especially in the field of physics. However, Albert Einstein’s life was not as quiet as it seems. He could not speak until he was 4 years old, which means that he was very late compared to other children of his age. He also had difficulty reading until 7 years. Even so, now the world knows him with all kinds of theories that led him to obtain the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Henry Ford: Henry Ford is known as one of the most successful people and the founder of Ford Motor Company, one of the world’s largest automotive companies. However, who would have thought, that Henry Ford also failed before building his company successfully. At the age of 36, Ford founded his first company called Detroit Automobile Company, who declared bankruptcy. Without giving up, two years later he restored a company called Henry Ford Company, who also returned to bankruptcy. Only in his third attempt could he successfully revolutionize the automotive industry, with his famous T model.
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Now the company he built has managed to sell around 17 million cars units. Thomas Alva Edison: Without his figure, maybe now the world was still living in the dark. Edison was the person who created the bulb technology that could be sold commercially. In his experiments, he had to make repetitions 9,000 times more to achieve success. Every time an experiment failed, Edison always told himself that he was not failing. "I have only found 9,000 forms that have not worked," and he continued to motivate himself that success is approaching because he already understands what methods do not work.
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