People seem to be intrigued by what successful people did and how they did it, and we often see it in the media.
However, once they achieve great success, they become distant from ordinary people and seem like people high in the clouds, so biographies of great people often don’t resonate with them.
But it seems that even successful people often have experienced feelings of despair and misfortune.
There is no way that the following episodes will directly lead to success.
Rather, why were these people able to achieve such great things that they have left their mark on the world?
It may be because they overcame adversity.
We hope that this will provide some hints and encouragement to those who are currently going through difficult times.
Abraham Lincoln
In the spring of 1832, he lost his job due to business troubles, and then in 1835, his girlfriend Ann died, which hit him hard.
In 1832, he ran for the state legislature but lost, and from then on he lost a total of eight elections.
After he got married, his second son died of illness.
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The 16th President of the United States.
He is also the president most beloved by the American people.
Winston Churchill
He was born two months premature.
As a child, Churchill was rebellious and was often punished.
He was sent to boarding school, his parents rarely visited him, and Churchill later said he rarely spoke to his father.
He had a speech impediment as a child, which he struggled with for many years.
After leaving boarding school, he failed three times to get into the military academy.
He lost elections in 1922 and 1929.
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Prime Minister of the wartime cabinet that led Britain to victory in World War II
Thomas Edison
His elementary school teacher told him he had “too little intelligence to learn,” he was fired twice from his job for being “too unproductive,” and he failed 1,000 times while inventing the light bulb.
Later, in an interview, a reporter asked him, “How does it feel to have failed 1,000 times?” to which he replied, “It’s not that I failed 1,000 times; it took 1,000 steps to invent the light bulb.”
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An inventor known as the King of Inventions.
Albert Einstein
He was unable to speak until he was four years old, and could not read until he was seven.
His parents thought he was retarded, and one of his teachers described him as
“mentally retarded, antisocial, and perpetually lost in his daydreams.”
He was expelled from school and later refused admission to a school in Zurich.
He later managed to learn to read and write.
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A theoretical physicist who established the theory of relativity. He is said to be the greatest genius of the 20th century.
アインシュタインの相対性理論など発明した理論やモノを知っていますか？”
Graham Bell
His Bell Telephone Company initially struggled to operate and he offered to sell it to Western Union for $100,000, which was coldly rejected: “What can you do with a company that makes electric toys?”
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It later became AT&T, the largest telephone company in the United States.
Charles Schultz
Even as a child, I was shy and spent a lot of time alone.
Every comic I drew and submitted to the yearbook staff in high school was rejected.
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A cartoonist of the famous “Peanuts” series, known for Snoopy
Henry Ford
Before his success, the car company had seven failures and five bankruptcies.
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Founder of the Ford Motor Company
アメ車はフォード社ヘンリー・フォード創業者の車をつくる熱意とは？
Michael Jordan
Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He later said, “I’ve failed so many times in life. That’s why I’ve succeeded.”
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Becoming the greatest player in basketball history.
Babe Ruth
As a child, he was a delinquent and his parents had no choice but to send him to reform school.
Before he set the home run record, he also held the strikeout record.
To go with his 714 home runs, he struck out 1,330 times.
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He held the all-time home run record in Major League Baseball for 34 years.
Walt Disney
Disney was fired by his editor at the newspaper company, and the reason given was that “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
Before building Disneyland, he went bankrupt several times, and the city of Anaheim refused to build a theme park, saying that it would only attract useless people.
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Masters of animation and manga
ウォルト・ディズニー の名言は短い？『ものごとを見事にやること！』はディズニー映画の原点
Harrison Ford
In high school, he was chosen as “the boy least likely to succeed,”
he was bullied and not popular with girls.
His first role was as a bellboy, and the vice president at the time told him, “You have no talent.”
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Became a popular actor in Star Wars and Indiana Jones
ハリソンフォードの若い頃は才能ゼロ！ スターウォーズからブレイクした？
Charlie Chaplin
His father died as an alcoholic, his mother suffered from mental illness, and he was moved from orphanage to poorhouse.
Hollywood initially criticized Charlie’s pantomime as nonsense.
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Nicknamed “The King of Comedy,” he is an actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Summary: What do great people have in common?
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
─ Winston Churchill
I hope this article helps you even a little.
Thank you for reading to the end.
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