A Word About Failure
Michael Jordan, undoubtedly one of the best basketball players ever and one of the best athletes the world has ever known said this about failure: "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." The story is well known that Michael Jordan didn't make his high school basketball team. I grew up playing baseball. I love the sport. I could walk to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California as a kid (it was a long walk admittedly) and grew up loving the Angels, played Little League and dreamed of a playing professional baseball. At the time I didn't realize how much failure was involved in being a baseball player. And I got cut from my high school team in my senior year. I still love baseball though. Instead, I took up golf which has become a much better adult sport. The