“Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nikem he says,”I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots. I’ve lost more than three-hundred games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the fame-winning shot and missed.’ You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times” (Dweck).

Here is that Nike AD……

Again, a fixed mindset belongs to the person who sees failure and proof positive they are “no-good.” The growth mindset sees failure as an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to become a better person. Embrace your missed shots and GROW!

Teddy Roosevelt stated, “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

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