Today, I gave a short presentation at my Business class, introducing my "business venture" idea. Other classmates presented as well--in a variety of topics. In fact, everyone else presented in groups. Topics included researched successful and sustainable companies and entrepreneurs nationally and internationally. One theme that I observed in these successful people's lives was that at some point in their lives, before they successfully created their business empires, they weren't taken seriously. In fact, I've seen this repeatedly with other artists and creative beings as well.
This is the very idea that Elizabeth Gilbert points out in her book, Big Magic. Getting "rejection letters" from different publishing agencies is normal. However, it does not imply that you are not a good writer or you are not good enough. We have some of our greatest artists and entrepreneurs who can back this up. Walt Disney was not able to get a job as a cartoonist at a local paper in Missouri, because he wasn't "creative" enough. I'm talking about Walt Disney, the founder of the Disney empire! Jam Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, applied to work at Facebook and was not able to get a job there--a few years later, after making huge success with his company of "WhatsApp", Facebook came to him and purchased his company for over $19 billion and gave him a percentage of Facebook's stocks! So he wasn't "good enough" to work at Facebook, but he later ended up owning part of Facebook.
I believe by studying these different successful public figures, we can gain some perspective. That when certain people come to our lives who don't believe in us or when supposedly successful business owners or prospective employers don't hire us or believe we are not the ideal candidate and will not move forward with our application--we should come to this and understand that it just means that we weren't a good fit for them per se; however, we are meant for something much bigger. It reminds me of the idea of being divergent, of not being able to fit into a certain category that the majority might be able to fit into easily, but instead, being so creative and so exceptional, that we need to create our own box, our own category, one that would hold us, and instead have those "normal ones" later come and work for us!
This is the very idea that Elizabeth Gilbert points out in her book, Big Magic. Getting "rejection letters" from different publishing agencies is normal. However, it does not imply that you are not a good writer or you are not good enough. We have some of our greatest artists and entrepreneurs who can back this up. Walt Disney was not able to get a job as a cartoonist at a local paper in Missouri, because he wasn't "creative" enough. I'm talking about Walt Disney, the founder of the Disney empire! Jam Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, applied to work at Facebook and was not able to get a job there--a few years later, after making huge success with his company of "WhatsApp", Facebook came to him and purchased his company for over $19 billion and gave him a percentage of Facebook's stocks! So he wasn't "good enough" to work at Facebook, but he later ended up owning part of Facebook.
I believe by studying these different successful public figures, we can gain some perspective. That when certain people come to our lives who don't believe in us or when supposedly successful business owners or prospective employers don't hire us or believe we are not the ideal candidate and will not move forward with our application--we should come to this and understand that it just means that we weren't a good fit for them per se; however, we are meant for something much bigger. It reminds me of the idea of being divergent, of not being able to fit into a certain category that the majority might be able to fit into easily, but instead, being so creative and so exceptional, that we need to create our own box, our own category, one that would hold us, and instead have those "normal ones" later come and work for us!
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