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“What
is the difference between a ‘champion’ and an ‘average person’?”- This question was once asked to an English football
player, Tom Hopkins. An apt and crisp reply came: “The single most important difference between champion achievers and average people istheir ability to handle rejection and failure.”
Perfectly
true! To do a self-analysis check, just try answering genuinely in
‘yes’ or ‘no’ these questions:
Do
you feel sad and disheartened when you meet with failures or
difficulties?
What
if these failures go on hitting you umpteen number of times?
Do
you give up your determination when the world labels your idea as
‘impossible’?
Do
you lose all your hopes, when situations don’t seem to be favouring
you despite your maximum efforts?
If
the answers to these questions are in ‘yes’, to whatsoever
decibel of intensity, then here are a few exclusive real-life
examples out of the innumerable ones, for you to receive sumptuous
doses of inspiration!
The
young and inexperienced shoulders of Chester Carlson were charged
with the responsibility to look after the ailing parents due to
adverse circumstances. When he was seventeen, he met with a sad
demise of his mother. At the age of twenty four, his father also
passed away. He struggled hard to earn a degree in physics, where
after he tried rigorously for a job. Probably, you would receive a
shock to know that he was rejected by “eighty two” firms before
he made it to Bell Labs in New York.
In
1934, Chester was in a job where he had to make copies of drawings by
hand. But, even after so many painful and challenging strokes,
destiny was not yet over with its stock of difficulties for Chester.
His hands used to pain a lot, with the problem aggravating as the
time passed. Chester was suffering from the problem of arthritis.
When his whole job and hence livelihood depended on his hands, which
were now on their way to ditch him, what was Chester’s move? Did he
quit the job… to take a difficult dive in the swarm of rejections?
Or, was he readying himself to sit with his head in hands, crying and
wailing over his state?
What
choice he opted?
When
difficulties, challenges and failures try to kick you hard and knock
you down, don’t turn your mood off! That’s not the wise angle to
look at things! Instead, adopt an intelligent perception… How? What
is that magical code to shoo away all failures and difficulties? To
know this and furthermore, read the complete article in February
edition of English Akhand Gyan monthly magazine.
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