UNBURDEN YOUR MIND

It is a  fact that the path to greatness is basically rough, tortuous, and in most cases, long. Success doesn't come alone. It comes through perseverance. Perseverance is being able to bear difficulties with patience without complaints. Along the line one often meets with failures and frustrations. In fact, there is no one of substance today who has not failed while trying to get there.

My beloved reader, do you know that Albert Einstein, the pioneer of atomic energy was a write off in academic work?  Out of anger his teacher once told him,
“you will never amount to very much” (the book of heroic failures by Stephen pile, page 216). Yet he amounted to much, much, much!  The name of the teacher has been forgotten long ago but Einstein lives on!

Isaac Newton was a dullard and was born post-humors. His performance at school was too bad. He was withdrawn from school on account of this and later sent back. He even failed a scholarship exam in1663 due to woeful inadequacy in geometry. He however wriggled out of trinity college Cambridge, with a pass degree in mathematics/optics. Yet, Newton achieved eminence in the world of science. He is said to be the father of modern science.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of filament lamp (electric bulb) failed about 10,000 times before success came to him. We can go on and on.

In politics, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the 16^thpresident of USA who was assassinated in April 14, 1865 after 49 months in office failed and failed until failure became his first name. He had only one year of formal education because of his poverty yet he became president at last! In his book, the success principles that never fail, Dave Dean chronicled Lincoln’s failure profile in this way

Year        event

1831       failed in business

1832       defeated for the legislature

1833       failed again in business

1834       elected for the legislature

1835       fiancée died

1836       had nervous breakdown

1838       defeated for speaker

1840       defeated for elector

1843       defeated for land officer

1846       elected for congress

1848       defeated for congress

1848       defeated for senate

1856       defeated for vice president

1858       defeated for senate

1860       elected president!

My brother, now answer this question: did the 13 failure as recorded deter him from pressing ahead to achieve his vision of becoming president of the so called most powerful nation of the world? NO OF COURSE!!

friend, dream big and work harder. Everyone who competes in a game goes into strict training. Unburden your mind by “throwing off everything that hinders”, for no one successfully climbs a mountain by tying a rock to his waist.

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