Awesome post by Tom Pestridge on how failure has to come before success. This image nails it — Colonel Sanders got rejected over 1,000 times before someone said yes to his now-famous KFC recipe.

Here is what he said:

Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. SUCCESS.

This is what success often looks like.

→ Colonel Sanders’ KFC recipe was rejected 1,009 times before he found a restaurant that would sell it.

→ MrBeast uploaded 455 videos before going viral.

→ 12 publishers turned down J.K. Rowling before being accepted.

→ WD-40 was perfected on the 40th attempt.

→ Sylvester Stallone was rejected more than 1,500 times before getting Rocky made.

→ Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before inventing the lightbulb.

→ James Dyson created 5,127 prototypes before developing the first bagless vacuum.

→ James Cameron was rejected over 100 times while trying to get The Terminator made.

→ Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.

→ Jay-Z was rejected by every major label before launching his own.

It’s easy to think nothing is working… until it does.

But every success story has a trail of failures behind it.

What really matters is how you handle those failures.

Failure = feedback.

Fail. Learn. Try again. Succeed.

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