Note from What They Don’t Teach You In School
For example, he found that millionaires contributed their success to having strong social skills, having good mentors, developing persistence, having a supportive spouse, and working in a career that they love to be the biggest factors of success.
“A formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you rich.”
Edison ‘failed’ more than ten thousand times before he succeeded in creating the light bulb. As said by Thomas Edison: “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
Here is my favorite failure story….
In 1832 he lost his job and was defeated for state legislature.
In 1833 he failed in business.
In 1835 his sweetheart died.
In 1836 he had a nervous breakdown.
In 1838 he was defeated for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1843 he was defeated for nomination for Congress.
In 1848 he lost renomination.
In 1849 he was rejected for land officer.
In 1854 he was defeated for U.S. Senate.
In 1856 he was defeated for nomination for Vice President.
In 1858 he was again defeated for U.S. Senate.
In 1860 he was elected President: Mr. Abraham Lincoln.
My motto is: fail as quickly as possible.
