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People are loving our Action TIPS, so highlighting them here. Your
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"The first time, the clerk at the rental car company declined my credit card. Then confiscated it. When Cale tried to smooth it over, offering up his credit card, the clerk said he wouldn't accept Cale's card either, because Cale was with me. Guilt by association.
Talk about your deadbeats. I couldn't bring myself to look Cale in the eye. Here we were, a dozen years out of Stanford, and while he was an eminently successful
businessman, I was still struggling to keep my head above water. He'd known I was struggling, but now he knew exactly how much. I was mortified...
Then, when he got to the factory, the owner laughed in my face. He said he wouldn't consider doing business with some fly-by-night company he'd never heard of- let alone from Oregon." ~ Phil Knight from
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight is worth somewhere around $25 billion. The 15th wealthiest person alive, Forbes
tells us.
But alas, our heroes weren't always heroes. In fact, they achieve their heroic feats BECAUSE they are willing to go through phases of appearing to be (and feeling like) a deadbeat. The walk to the Hall of Fame goes through (not around) the Failure Hall of Fame.
As Mr. Nike himself, Michael Jordan has said, "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted
to take the winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
...Successful people have a different relationship with failure. They see inevitable (!) mistakes and failures as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks. They know they must learn to fail or fail to learn.
How's your relationship to failure and what can you do to optimize it
1%?
