How to be

a failure

‘hopeless as a composer’

‘You will amount to nothing’

Failed businessman and lawyer

Every cartoon he submitted to school magazine was rejected

Failed and went broke 5 times

‘lacks imagination and has no

good ideas’ -sacked

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

How are you going

to deal with

failure when you

encounter it?

Are you an

optimist or

a pessimist?

Optimist Pessimist

‘...sometimeshappens’ or ‘happened this time’

‘always/never happens’

Blame yourself this time

Blame yourself generally

Resilience

‘It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up’

‘Failure is unimportant.

It takes courage to

make a fool of yourself’