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A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility

A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility. Remember: There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback that the strategy you chose didn’t produce the results you wanted. Let’s try a different strategy. “ Failed” at business at age 21 Defeated in legislative race at age 22

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A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility

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  1. A Key to Unlocking Potential is with Models of Possibility Remember: There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback that the strategy you chose didn’t produce the results you wanted. Let’s try a different strategy...

  2. “Failed” at business at age 21 • Defeated in legislative race at age 22 • “Failed” at business again at age 24 • Nervous breakdown at age 27 • Lost Congressional race at age 34 • Lost another Congressional race at age 36 • Lost Senatorial race at age 45 • “Failed” in effort to become Vice-President at age 47 • Lost Senatorial race at age 49 • Elected President of US at age 52

  3. Abraham Lincoln

  4. African-American, born 1954 • Born to an unmarried teenage couple • Humble beginnings rural Mississippi • Raised by grandmother till she was 13 • Sexually molested by a relative after she moved in with her mother • Unruly, involvement with juvenile authorities

  5. Oprah Winfrey

  6. Consider an experiment in the labs that went awry. A scientist was trying to develop the stickiest glue available and “failed”.The result?

  7. Post-it notes

  8. Blind and deaf since infancy... Uncommunicative for years...

  9. Helen Keller

  10. Became wheelchair-bound following a horse riding accident • Acted again in Village of the Damned (1995) • Involved in campaigns supporting handicapped children

  11. Christopher Reeve

  12. Tried 9,999 times to invent a device we now use daily... • After an experiment blew up in his lab, his technician asked, “Are you going to have ten thousand failures?”

  13. Thomas Edison • “I didn’t fail. I just discovered another way not to invent the electric light bulb.”

  14. Rejected 1,009 times when offering a business opportunity...

  15. Colonel Sanders

  16. Had been retired from the Navy as “unfit for service” prior to his historic flight over both poles...

  17. Admiral Richard E. Byrd

  18. Was rated as “mediocre” in chemistry in college...

  19. Louis Pasteur

  20. Entered the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a Private...

  21. Abraham Lincoln

  22. Was told by an editor that she could “never write anything that had popular appeal.”

  23. Louisa May Alcott

  24. Repeated 6th grade...

  25. Winston Churchill

  26. His music teacher once said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.”

  27. Beethoven

  28. A newspaper editor fired him because he had “no good ideas.”

  29. Walt Disney

  30. Think of your own “Models of Possibility”...

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