Failure List

WE LEARN…

10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed with others
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we TEACH to someone else

-William Glasser


Failure List

Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.

Isaac Newton did poorly in school.

Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him “as a composer he is hopeless”.

When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.

F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry good store when he was 21 but his employer would not let him wait on customers because he “didn’t have enough sense”.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bob Cousy and Bill Russell suffered the same fate.

A newspaper fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas.

Winston Churchhill failed the 6th grade.

Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever.

Somewhere we all must meet someone who sees greatness in us and expects it from us. How will you see them this week?