Many of you must have read some articles about successful l people, their stories about there there success, and their ideology but has anyone ever read a book about unsuccessful people, their failures, and the reasons why they failed?
Close your eyes and think of three successful people.
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Now do the same and think about three unsuccessful people and think about their failures. I am pretty sure very few people will be able to name three unsuccessful people and their failures. Why is that? Why do we always read and learn about successful people but never acknowledge their failures? The answer to this is Media, Media is a place where the loudest and the most controversial people get the highest user base, We are not rational and we tend to fall into the traps of these people glorifying success.
Andrew Tate, his name is known by everybody for sure unless you live in the Stone Age, the reason for his success was glorifying it and being controversial. His statement and misogynistic views are the subject of controversy but still, he has his followers, who are paying him hundreds of dollars to get a course, a mere garbage, he is selling. It is not just Andrew Tate but hundreds of influencers who are making millions of dollars by selling and glorifying the taste of success to teenagers who are falling into this trap
Now let’s look at people like Adam Neumenn, ever heard of him …or let’s take Kendrick Bradley, Ever heard of them? Adam Neumann was the founder of WeWork and Kendrick Bradley was the founder of Zume, They all created amazing startups but failed because of several problems. Let’s take WeWork and Zume instance
Company: WeWork
Reason for failure: overexpansion, lack of systemic administration
Company: Zume
Reason for failure: Poor execution and farfetched idea
These are just two of the examples, over 99% of the startups failed. Each failure teaches something new.
“If you fail 1000 times you will learn 1000 new things”
Failure and fault are virtually inseparable in most households, organizations, and cultures. Every child learns at some point that admitting failure means taking the blame. That is why so few organizations have shifted to a culture of psychological safety in which the rewards of learning from failure can be fully realized.
Nuseir Yassin, a famous influencer known for Nas Daily had many failures in his career, He Was an Israeli-Palestinian and saw the escalation of the situation of the Conflict but because of opportunities he was able to get into Harward, He met good people and new faces and made relationships. He then started a new company that gave short-form news to people and became a journalist, the company failed and he had to start over again but he did not quit, He started a cloth rental business which gave clothes on rent for different occasions but he did that also failed, he then started his youtube channel Nas daily where he posted one-minute short videos every day, and did not miss even a single day that company took off and he became a millionaire and a celebrity
Jack wrote a proposal to develop a better test. 199 research labs rejected him. I’ll repeat that — 199 labs REJECTED him. Good thing he didn’t give up and good thing a lab finally said “Yes”. The 200th research lab — at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore — accepted him. At the lab, Jack Andraka developed a Pancreatic Cancer test 100 times better and 26,000 times less expensive than the current test. Jack’s invention will save tens of thousands of lives.