Super Survivor Failure

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Failure gives the ability to look at a different perspective, a sign that helps guide the way and a teacher that teaches to improve to be better. Many famous people and industries throughout the world had their moments of failure through their first attempts in business or career. In a new book, Super Survivor, written by Psychologist David Feldman and science journalist Lee Daniel infuses stories of people who bounce back and grow after a traumatic event. Super survivors are not people who are extraordinary but ordinary people who take their fears and turn it into something else (Suttie “Can Suffering Lead to Success”)? We only stress about the things we care about. According to Crum he calls it mindset about how much something means to a …show more content…

Ben and Jerry 's Ice Cream is a world known ice cream Inc. It’s hard to believe that they were not born with silver spoon in their mouth because of where they are now. Ben Cohen was a dropout and Jerry Greenfield did not get into medical school but both manage to become very successful people. Their lives took a completely different direction from where they started but their goal still remained the same: Success. (Eion”10 Great lessons highly successful people have learned from Failure”). One of the greatest NBA players Michael Jordan succeeded because he failed. He was cut from high school basketball team but because of his passion and love for basketball his failure did not stop him from playing. Instead it drove him to be better. He stated, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I 've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”. (“50 Famously Successful People who failed at First”). His desire for success was greater than his fear of failure and that is what makes him successful. Failure will help guide the lost and set them straight into