YOU’RE GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL Steven Spielberg was rejected
You have an idea for a project? by the School of Cinematic Arts
Thinking of writing a book? Starting multiple times
a business? YouTube channel? Thomas Edison’s teachers told
Blog? Go for it. I’m sure it’s a him he was “too stupid to learn
unique, never-been-done-before anything”
idea. And if you think it might suck, Jay-Z couldn’t get any record
don’t. Your every idea is amazing label to sign him
because, as we’ve learned, you’re All these people later went on to
awesome and criticism is bad. If become extremely successful and
you could actually learn something well-known in their respective
from criticism, it would mean that fields. They didn’t listen to what
it is not necessarily bad. And that’s others told them and they didn’t
just crazy. let the haters discourage them.
They kept pushing until they
Satistics say that 9/10 startups fail
achieved their dreams.
and that almost half of them fail
This, of course, doesn’t mean that
because there was no market need
they failed many, many, many
for their product or service. In
times before succeeding. It doesn’t
other words, nobody was
mean that they had hundreds of
interested in their shit in the first
shit ideas before finding one that
place. But those brave souls
was actually good. It also doesn’t
refused to listen to haters and kept
mean they are exceptionable
going. The final outcome is not
people who spent endless hours,
relevant
months, and years perfecting their
Let’s pull up some statistics of our
craft, thinking of new ideas,
own. Spoiler alert – they are going
learning and evolving from
to blow your mind:
criticism (although we prefer the
Walt Disney was fired because
term hatorade) and making
his boss felt he “lacked
sacrifices for a better future.
imagination and had no good
The only thing that we can learn from
ideas”
these fun facts is that they were just
Oprah Winfrey was publicly
normal, ordinary people – like you. If
fired from her first television they could do it, why couldn’t you? If
job for getting “too emotionally you want it hard enough, you’ll
invested in her stories” definitely be successful one day
(regardless of how much work you
actually put in).
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