Do you think he got to where he is today by luck, chance or by accident? No, he achieved all of that because he has the success mindset and refused to listen to discouraging words from those who didn’t believe in him because of his stature. That mindset made him be persistent enough, believing in himself and saying no to the world’s view of him.
Today he is no more an actor struggling for roles and living in poverty. He lives in a nice apartment and married a good wife. He has all it takes to be able to say this: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” The point of his words is that, even when you’re rejected …show more content…
Meanwhile, what is usually used to measure one’s ability is the achievement. Well, we have to agree with that. However, can we say that ability is only inborn? If it is, there’s no point in trying to improve one’s ability to do anything. Happily though, while we’re born with a natural ability, we can still cultivate other abilities to make what we’re born with more effective.
The fact that you’re born with a natural ability doesn’t mean that you’ll automatically be successful. With a wrong mindset, your ability may be used in a wrong way, perhaps by other people who want to use you in a wrong way. If that happens to anyone, he’ll be one of those mentioned at the beginning of this chapter that they just wasted their life. On the contrary, as we’ve seen, if you don’t have any natural ability but if you’re willing to learn, you can reach any height. So having a proper mindset is more important than having a natural ability. The mindset will give you the ability you lacked before.
It’s good to talk about Thomas Edison at this point. How would you describe him? A great inventor of all time? The whole world will remain grateful to him for the telephone, the phonograph, the electric bulb, and the electric power distribution among others. He got the knowledge of electricity and other communication technology when he was a