Here are excerpts from a great article about success that was sent to me by Alexis K.: There’s a frustrating truth to success in the Internet age: in order for your work to reach an audience, someone with power has to give it a chance, and in order for someone in power to give it a chance, it has to have an audience, Cuhna wrote. And before any of that can happen, you have to believe in yourself enough to keep going even when all you get in return is rejection after rejection. ... success is not only a product of talent and luck, but also hard work and resilience -- lots of hard work and resilience. Successful people dont just get it right immediately -- they fail up. Almost any successful person can tell you a story of failure or rejection that ultimately was a prelude to acclaim and recognition. Robert Pirsigs now-iconic 1974 work of philosophical fiction, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was rejected by a whopping 121 publishers before going on to sell 5 million copies worldwide. Success requires risk, which brings in the possibility of rejection -- particularly when it comes to creative work. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often, Forbes contributor Steven Kotler wrote in a piece on Einsteins creative genius. The more a writer or entrepreneur fails, the closer they come to success. Heres the whole, fab article:
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:00:01 +0000
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