EP 71 - Steve Simonson - 6 Famous Failures Who Refused to Give Up

6 Famous Failures Who Refused to Give Up We all face adversity. Don't let your setbacks stand in your way. On today’s Awesomers Insights episode, Steve talks about some of the famous failures in history. Here are important takeaways on today’s episode: The famous failures of all time including that of Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, the Beatles and Albert Einstein. “Am I worth it? Am I smart enough? Am I fast enough?” Some of the questions every entrepreneur asks themselves. The common challenge extraordinarily successful people had to face. So be inspired by today’s episode and remember that failure only brings you another step closer to success. 01:15 (Steve opens up today’s episode.) 05:23 (Steve’s axiom 10 - fail fast.) 06:08 (Steve talks about one of the first famous fails in history.) 08:36 (Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination and original ideas.”) 11:52 (Steve Jobs was fired from Apple for presumably lacking vision.) 16:14 (Oprah was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she “wasn’t fit for television.”) 17:57 (Decca Recording Studios on the Beatles: We don’t like their sound.) 19:54 (According to Albert Einstein’s teacher, he would never amount to much.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 01:15 (Steve opens up today’s episode.) Steve: Everybody it's me, Steve Simonson and I'm coming back to you again with another Awesomers episode. This is Awesomers.com episode number 71. So the super secret handshake is just go to Awesomers.com/71 to find all the show notes and details. Now today, we're doing a little bit of a pivot for you. So the first thing I wanted to share with you is that you know we've been producing content faster than our audience can consume it. So in many cases, the average day of content output is around 60 minutes, yet we realize that you know with all your business going and all your daily activities and even other podcasts - I can't believe you listen to other podcasts instead of just me. But, no. Dare I say that there are other podcasts in this world that you're listening to. It's hard for everybody to consume and keep up with the output of our production, of our factory at Awesomers.com so we're gonna start breaking the show in the 15 to 20 minute segments. So even if I'm doing a long-form interview like the origin story which all parts of that are very interesting, we're gonna break that into again 15 to 20-minute slugs so that you can kind of download and consume it at a reasonable pace. And our mission is to deliver these daily podcasts because we want to give you something you can collect, something you can count on seven days a week.