What an Attitude!!
Successful people don't do great things, they only do ordinary small things in a great way. Let me share with you the story of a man who was an utter failure in his childhood, but what he did in his future, you must be knowing. Here is the story:
One day a partially deaf four year old child came home with a note in his hand. The note was from the little boy's teacher who said,"Your son is too stupid to learn. Just get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My son is not too stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that stupid son grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had just three months of formal schooling.
See another instance:
As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working in a small shed near the church. When he saw a small mouse, he thought of drawing a new cartoon. That was the birth of Mickey Mouse.
In India, the great singer, Kumar Sanu used to sing in hotels, orchestra etc. Once he went to a producer(name not disclosed) to show him his compositions. The producer tore apart all his compositions and said to him,"Its not so easy man. Your compositions are childish." Few months later his film "Aashiquee" was released which was super-duper hit.
In 1914, Thomas Edison, at the age 67, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said,"You know? There is a great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start all afresh." Inspite of the disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. WHAT AN ATTITUDE....
What do all these stories tech us? They act as moral-boosters. We have to accept that setbacks are inevitable. A setback can act as driving force. When you try, you do not succeed always. One has to learn to become victors, not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind.
