Great men were FAILURES WHEN THEY STARTED

  

Their parents, teachers, bosses saw them as ordinary people who could not succeed in life. In fact, many of them appeared less than ordinary, sometimes wierd, with skewed minds. But these same men have changed history, shifted our paradigm, affected our lives in extra-ordinary way. Our lives, our society would not be the way they are if not for these men.

Imagine how simple you are, sometimes you may feel also skewed, or warped by some force of circumstances... just think about these men, and there are so many more of them.  

As Napoleon Hill said, “ We can observe from the biographies of men of destiny, that every one of them was sorely tried and run through the mill of merciless experience before they

More about these great men who were ordinary and were failures when they started... even the founder of Federal Express which is a large organization world wide was told that his idea was ridiculous and was given a failing mark by his college professor.  

*"Despite his professor's lack of encouragement, Fred Smith held on to the idea and founded Federal Express in the early 1970s. In 1973, the company carried its first load of 186 packages." (Neotorama, 1st page)

In short, he pursued his idea. 

*Thomas Edison’s teachers said that he was too stupid to learn anything.  He was considered “addled” for asking too many questions.

There is more of these ordinary people... follow the next post!