Blog Prompt 12

Blog Prompt: Is failure the road to success?

Answer: For me, i think that failure is indeed the road to success. There are many examples.

• 27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
• Jack London received six hundred rejection slips before he sold his first story.
• Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely dea
• Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered "nonsense."
• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.
• After Carl Lewis won the gold medal for the long jump in the 1996 Olympic games, he was asked to what he attributed his longevity, having competed for almost 20 years. He said, "Remembering that you have both wins and losses along the way. I don't take either one too seriously."
• Babe Ruth is famous for his past home run record, but for decades he also held the record for strikeouts. He hit 714 home runs and struck out 1,330 times in his career (about which he said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."). And didn't Mark McGwire break that strikeout record? (John Wooden once explained that winners make the most errors.)
• Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams. Jordan once observed, "I've failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed."
• Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Even to do a little math.
• Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

There are many more other examples, these are just like planet earth in the galaxy!

For me, i have also failed before. When I was in Primary 4, i was in one of the lousy class in Primary School. I thought that my future lies in Yusof Ishak and other neighbourhood Schools. However i did not give up, I knew i would not give in to such a minor setback. Now i am a proud student of hwachong instituition student!

In another incident, I was desperately trying to get into my basketball team. However, I was not given a chance by my coach to shine, however, when my chance came, i took it and my coach was very impressed with me and decided to put me into the basketball team.

After all this incidents, i have realised that failure is the road to success.