“Never give up. Failure and rejection are just the first steps to succeeding”
– Jim Valvano
We all know Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team, and that lit a competitive fire that powered him to six NBA Championships.
David Goggins had to go through Navy Seal Hell Week three times, and it took him three cracks to break the single day pull up record.
Both took those losses and used them, learned from them, fed off of them and have achieved epic things because of those failures.
Milton Hershey went bankrupt several times.
Chicken Soup for the Soul was rejected 100+ times, and eventually sold 100m+ books in the series.
Failure is not final. Failure is feedback.