If you pay attention to business failures, you may start to perceive what some call “dead ends onto right paths.” Here are a few Harvey McKay gave in his classic business book:
1) Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper. For what? For lack of ideas.
2) MGM’s memo after Fred Astaire’s screen test said: Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
3) Beethoven’s violin teacher declared him hopeless as a composer.
This is Howard Butt Jr. of Laity Lodge. If that list of dead ends doesn’t encourage you, have someone check your pulse. Failures do not a career UN-make. On the contrary: A dead end is your signal to make a RIGHT turn… into the high calling of our daily work.
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”— Psalm 73:26
