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Gumption, Guts and Glory

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CJ

Chris Jones

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Everyone has problems.

Here's how to deal.

Joan of Arc

Born in Domremy, occupied France during the Hundred Years' War

Three problems:

1. She's poor

2. She hears voices

3. She's a

Whale of a lot of problems here:

  • His grandmother was an indentured servant.
  • His father was a candle-maker.
  • His mother was his father's second wife.
  • He was his father's tenth son, and FIFTEENTH child.
  • He dropped out of school at 10
  • Ran away from home at 17
  • Blew off an apprenticeship and became a wanted man
  • Proposed to a 15-year-old girl (when he was only 17 himself)
  • Finally married her - common-law - because she was already married

But then he:

  • founded the first lending library
  • started the first US hospital
  • charted the Gulf Stream
  • figured out electricity
  • established the post office
  • discovered evaporative cooling
  • invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and several other things (none of which he patented)
  • oh, and signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

NOT.

  • Dropped out of school in 4th grade
  • Fired from his job with a printer
  • Started three candy companies
  • All of them failed

Milton Hershey

  • Dropped out at 15
  • Bounced around
  • Started on the bottom and worked his way up
  • Parents pulled him from school
  • Teachers called him "stupid" and "unteachable"
  • Fired six times before he was 21
  • Even after success, failed spectacularly

Stephen Hawking

Temple Grandin

Ludwig van Beethoven

Claude Monet

Helen Keller

Here are a couple of rules:

(Thanks, Marcus Aurelius)

Keep your head up

Move your feet

Grit your teeth

  • Started a company in his parents' garage
  • Became a millionaire at 22
  • $2 billion company at 30
  • then he gets fired

Joseph son of Jacob

Everything he did worked.

Simon Cowell

Gumption, Guts, and Glory

Benjamin Franklin

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