Some of the most
famous and successful people in the world considered themselves
failures.
Harry Truman
and Abraham Lincoln failed as shopkeepers before becoming president.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president more times than
anyone else, but had to do it after failing as a candidate for
vice-president in 1920. Eddie Rickenbacker smashed up his plane
on his first solo flight before going on to become the greatest
aerial ace of World War I. Later on, he headed up an automobile
manufacturing company, which promptly went broke.
And did you realize
that Babe Ruth, the first home run king of baseball, or Hank
Aaron, his modern-era successor, both struck out more times than
anyone else?
In fact, when
reporters asked the Babe what he thought about when he struck
out, he just shrugged: "I think about hitting home runs."
It just shows
that you have to get up to the plate and take your swings.
You can't
do a home run trot if you're sitting on your butt in the dugout.