The times we fall don't define who we are; the times we get back up do! However, when we fall, others may try to give us less than flattering labels. We each have a choice of how we are going to deal with those labels. Will we live up to the good ones? Will we prove the bad ones to be false?
Here is a little quiz about very well known individuals who could have given up very easily based on labels that they received such as "failure" or "no imagination" or "too stupid." Give it a go, and then watch the video to see how many you got right!
- Dismissed from drama school with a note that read “Wasting her time. She is too shy to put her best foot forward.”
- Turned down by the Decker recording company who said “We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.”
- Failed soldier and farmer, and real estate agent, at 38 years old he went to work for his father as a handy man.
- Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried.
- A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything and that he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.
- Fired from a newspaper because he “lacked imagination” and had “no original ideas.”
- His fiancé died failed in business twice, had a nervous breakdown, and he was defeated in 8 elections.
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