I am writing this article after watching the
video of Steve Jobs speech that he had given in the year 2005 at Stanford
University. Apart from the getting “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” mantra for the success, another mantra
that act as a catalyser for every one’s life and that all we have got from his
life is the mantra of Never
Give Up. How he had face the deadly disease “Cancer” with so ease and calm
and didn’nt allows Cancer to become an obstacle in the path of his goal. More
surprisingly, after firing from Apple Computers, a Company founded and started
by him, he didn’t stop and look back; and continued with the mantra Never Give Up. And as all we
knows he came back and became the CEO of Apple.
I know it’s not so easy to adopt this mantra
because situations are not identical and each life had different resources to
face and to interact with the problems. But the best way to overcome with the
problems is to face them. It is the way available to all and undoubtly works in
every situation.
Recently saw an episode in the show named
India’s Got Talent, in which a girl named Shubh Kaur Ghumman age
27 years from Punjab came at the platform; who has loosed her
one Leg by mistake of Doctor; to perform the dance and did dance so
well that everyone, not only the studio spectators but the peoples who were
watching the show before TV were on their feet to clap. This is the perfect
factual illustration of Never Give Up mantra.
Most successes are not
overnight successes. Before you are able to taste success you are faced
with temporary defeat and failure. It is at these failures and
defeats where most people give up.
As long as you are alive you have no excuse to
say you can’t, the only valid excuse to give up is that you are dead. The things that can make your dream into reality are inside you,
only you have to recognize and utilize them. True failure isn’t when you miss
the mark; rather it’s when you give up.
Take another real illustration of Thomos
Edison. When Thomas Edison was interviewed by a young reporter who
boldly asked Mr. Edison if he felt like a failure and if he thought he
should just give up by now. Edison replied, "Young man, why would I feel
like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I didn't fail 3,000 times. I
found 3,000 ways how not to create a lightbulb" And with the magic mantra of Never
Give Up, he got the success and invented lightbulb.
Life is all about choices. If you choose to
live, then you have to live confidently even the shower of problems come. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for
lack of ideas. Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built
Disneyland.
Jackie Chan dropped out from grade school after
the 1st year and was sent to the China Drama Academy where he trained for 19
hours a day. He used to be a stuntman in Bruce Lee’s movies.
Bill Gates was a Harvard dropout but was clever
enough to buy someone’s product for $50,000, rebrand & licensed it to IBM
& other computer companies for billions.
All these are the best illustrations of the
mantra Never Give Up. The
more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the closer you’re to
where you wanna be. If you never failed, you’ve never lived.
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