19th January 2011
`Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that'.
Carlton Young
We have to succeed ultimately. On our way to final success we may meet with intermittent failures. If you are not failing at all, it means that you are not working hard enough or that you have easy to achieve goals. You may not be having what are called `stretch goals'. Your real worth comes out only when you are tested on difficult tasks.
Robert Toru Kiyosaki is a famous motivation speaker and a writer. He is best known for his Rich Dad Poor Dad series of motivation books. He has written over 15 books and all his books put together have sold more than 26 million copies.
But his manuscripts were rejected by several publishing houses!
If you have not read Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books you are missing something. The author Mark Victor Hansen is the most popular writer the world has ever produced. His books have sold over 140 million copies in 54 world languages!
Over a dozen publishers rejected his manuscripts!
J K Rowling's first Harry Potter novel was rejected by over twelve publishers including Penguin, Transworld and HarperCollins. Ultimately a small London publisher Bloomsbury published the book on the advice of the CEO's nine year old daughter!
Do you know that the University of Sothern California rejected Steven Spielberg because of his C grade?
John Grisham's first novel A Time To Kill was rejected by over sixteen publishers until Wynwood Press accepted to publish the same. The book was great success!
Doris May Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Noble Prize for Literature. She was ranked fifth of `The 50 Greatest British writers since 1945' by The Times.
When Doris May Lessing sent her writing under a pseudonym, it was rejected!
These people did not give up!
N C Sridharan
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