Beautifully said, dramatically illustrated: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot…and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Thanks to Steve Clayton for the Inspiration…
For an anecdote from Michael Jordan’s childhood and his first experience with failure check out: http://www.yourhrguy.com/2007/10/03/failure-isnt-fatal/: "In his sophomore year of high school, Michael Jordan failed to make the varsity basketball team. He has said, “I was very disappointed and I thought the coach had make a mistake. But my mother said the best thing for me to do is to prove the coach wrong. And I started working on my game the day after I was cut.”