So... do you think you failed at something? Think again...
The teacher of famous opera singer Enrico Caruso said Caruso had no voice at all and couldn't sing.
Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bach's 10,000 word story about a soaring seagull before MacMillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975, "Jonothan Livingston Seagull" had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone.
Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades when the teachers decided he couldn't do the work.
RH Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
President Harry S. Truman went broke in the men's clothing store he started.
When Bob Dylan performed at a high school talent show, his classmates booed him off the stage.
When you're committed to your fullest self-expression what others say to you and about you really doesn't matter to you. That's how you know you are committed to it or not.
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