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Failure Happens to the Best People:
You can win the battle against failure and achieve brilliant success.
With a keen interest, I learn about American presidents' lives, failures, and achievements.
Of particular interest, I read about the failure of the tall, slender, quiet boy who never had much of a chance.
He had to work from the age of seven when his family joined the homeless. His mother died two years after that.
As he grew to adulthood, the young man held a series of minor jobs until his twenties, when he got fired as a store clerk. But the idea of operating a store appealed to him.
At age twenty -three, he took out a loan to buy a small business. Unfortunately, the run of bad luck continued; his partner died three years later. Now the young man’s debt was more than double & he knew it would take years to repay it.
He fared no better at relationships. Approaching his thirties, he was still a bachelor. He proposed to one young lady after four years of dating, but she turned him down. It was just another failure; he got used to that.
Twice he ran for Congress, and twice he lost. His credentials were unimpressive.
By the age of thirty-seven, with more than half of his life over, they finally…
