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A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility. Remember: There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback that the strategy you chose didn’t produce the results you wanted. Let’s try a different strategy. “ Failed” at business at age 21 Defeated in legislative race at age 22
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A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility Remember: There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback that the strategy you chose didn’t produce the results you wanted. Let’s try a different strategy...
“Failed” at business at age 21 • Defeated in legislative race at age 22 • “Failed” at business again at age 24 • Nervous breakdown at age 27 • Lost Congressional race at age 34 • Lost another Congressional race at age 36 • Lost Senatorial race at age 45 • “Failed” in effort to become Vice-President at age 47 • Lost Senatorial race at age 49 • Elected President of US at age 52
African-American, born 1954 • Born to an unmarried teenage couple • Humble beginnings rural Mississippi • Raised by grandmother till she was 13 • Sexually molested by a relative after she moved in with her mother • Unruly, involvement with juvenile authorities
Consider an experiment in the labs that went awry. A scientist was trying to develop the stickiest glue available and “failed”.The result?
Blind and deaf since infancy... Uncommunicative for years...
Became wheelchair-bound following a horse riding accident • Acted again in Village of the Damned (1995) • Involved in campaigns supporting handicapped children
Tried 9,999 times to invent a device we now use daily... • After an experiment blew up in his lab, his technician asked, “Are you going to have ten thousand failures?”
Thomas Edison • “I didn’t fail. I just discovered another way not to invent the electric light bulb.”
Rejected 1,009 times when offering a business opportunity...
Had been retired from the Navy as “unfit for service” prior to his historic flight over both poles...
Entered the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a Private...
Was told by an editor that she could “never write anything that had popular appeal.”
His music teacher once said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.”
A newspaper editor fired him because he had “no good ideas.”
