Along history we've seen people being successful doing what they love or believe, this is not something impossible to achieve, so what is the exact formula to do what you love and be successful? The answers is simple: just keep trying, don't give up. Why? Seems quite exhausting to keep trying sometimes... but what we don't see is that most people that have achieve something amazing in their fields is because they never stop trying, they didn't become successful overnight.
Here are 20 examples of amazing people that didn't give up, there is more but these are my favourites:
1- Elvis Presley
In 1954, Elvis was still a nobody, and Jimmy Denny, manager of the
Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling
him, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a
truck."
But he became one of the most popular musicians of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or "the King"
2- Albert Einstein
He didn't speak until age four and
didn't read until age seven. His teachers labeled him "slow" and
"mentally handicapped. He failed to reach the required standard in several subjects for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, but obtained exceptional grades in physics and mathematics.
He later won the Nobel prize in physics.
His great intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius.
3-Winston Churchill
He failed the sixth grade. He was defeated in every public office role he ran for.
Then he became the British prime minister at the age of 62.
4- Marilyn Monroe
Her first contract with Columbia
Pictures expired because they told her she wasn't pretty or talented
enough to be an actress. She kept plugging away and is one of the most iconic actresses and sex symbols of all time.
5- Abraham Lincoln
He started numerous failed business and was defeated in numerous runs he made for public office. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises, preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernising the economy. He is remembered as one of the greatest leaders.
6- The Beatles
When they were just starting out, a recording company told them no. The
were told "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out," But they became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed act in the rock music era.
7-Beethoven
He was incredibly awkward on the
violin and was often so busy working on his own compositions that he
neglected to practise. Despite his love of composing, his teachers felt
he was hopeless at it and would never succeed with the violin or in
composing. Beethoven kept plugging along, however, and composed some of
the best-loved symphonies of all time–five of them while he was
completely deft.
8- Bill Gates
He drop out of Harvard to start a business with Paul Allen but this early business didn't work, while this early idea didn't work, Gate's later work did , creating the global empire that is Microsoft.
9- Socrates
In his own time he was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and was sentenced to death. Socrates didn't let this stop him and kept right on, teaching up until he was forced to poison himself. Socrates now reminds as one of the greatest philosophers of the Classical era.
10- Charlie Chaplin
His act was rejected by executives because they thought it was too obscure for people to understand. Eventually he became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry.
11- David Bowie
He might be a massive music icon now but it took him 10 years of several failed albums until he created Ziggy Stardust. What Lady Gaga is doing now, he did it 40 years ago, in those days it took a lot of guts for a man to come out wearing make up, women clothes and bright red hair. He is consider a major figure in the world of popular music for over four decades, and is renowned as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.
In resume: Do what you love so you can stop working and never stop trying.
