WHY THE BEST SUCCESS STORIES OFTEN BEGINS WITH FAILURE.

Success Is what every man desires in life but the path that lead to success is what many people is always scared of taken. Because most a times this path is engrossed with frustration, rejection and criticism. And that is why life of successful people is always subject to scrutiny by the weaker individuals who are not ready to absorb the pains that are been attached to this path that leads to success

Looking at the story of a man who edited the blog openinglines.org, a collection of case studies on the origin of famous careers.

Behind every success story is an embarrassing first effort, a stumble, a setback or a radical change of direction. When you see someone who is very successful, you almost imagine that it was a forgone conclusion, that they are a genius" says fiegerman, who began the blog in 2009, after an early setback in his own career.

I think the big takeaway is failure and setback, far from being uncommon, are in many ways essential.
By fiegerman

Fiegerman was 26 when he graduated from New York university in 2008, luckily to him, he landed a coveted first job as a research editor at Playboy magazine. But he had worked there for just half a year when management announced that most of the staff would soon be laid off.

When things were becoming so difficult for Fiegerman, he felt adrift. Then he started to explore the Playboy archives, discovering a trove of interviews with celebrities ranging from Marlon Brando to Malcolm X. The less promising early days Thales of these successful people were shared, and quickly, fiegerman became obsessed with these origin stories.

“It kind of paired well with this feeling that I had of, ‘Oh my God, what do I do?’” Fiegerman says. “And I discovered solace, in some ways, reading about the obstacles that famous figures had to overcome.”

He began devouring biographies and soliciting interviews with writers and musicians he admired, using the blog to document the fits and starts that began the careers of the famous and the infamous. Success, he learned, was less a matter of innate talent and more the product of perseverance, a willingness to stumble and stand up again and again.
“You can conclude that great geniuses are like Mozart,” Fiegerman says. But few successful people were child prodigies, and prodigies don’t necessarily find success. “Most people don’t stick to it."

Author Jennifer Egan stuck with it. She told Fiegerman that her first novel was so bad even her mother hated it. But Egan kept writing, and her writing got better—in 2011, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel about growing old in the digital age, A Visit From the Goon Squad.

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