Reaction Paper on Young Entrepreneurs
March 03, 2017
Among
all of the inspiring stories of those successful people, I was most inspired by
the story of Sara Blakely on how she failed her way to her first $1 billion.
She
has been failed her entire life but she kept going. She did not for a moment
considered quitting or even thought about it. She tried and tried everything
even though what she did would usually end up embarrassing her. She became a
personal seller, was rejected so many times but she still does what she’s
supposed to do. Even after she has already made her own company, still, she
experienced yet another failure for it did not go smoothly, but it still didn’t
faze her and her sheer drive told her to keep going as what she said. She even
joined a game show and for the last time, failed, but she didn’t give a damn
about what other people think. She just does her thing and then look at her
now, branded as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
If I am to put myself in her shoes, with all
the failures she has experienced, I would probably just quit and cry myself
out. But she did not, she may have cried but she never quitted. Though like
her, I am also a strong willed person, unlike her, I sometimes resort to
quitting if all else fail, that is why her indomitable spirit really moved me,
like, she doesn’t stop, and she kept going and does everything to get what she
wanted. She motivated me to become like her, to have a determination in
whatever I do. Just like what she said, “Failure is not the outcome, failure is
not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail”.
Her
story also motivated me to become rich not for myself alone but for the people
so that I will finally be able to do what I dreamt of since I was young. That
is to help other people and make their lives better by donating to charities
and providing employment or even business ventures.
That
is the effect Sara Blakely’s story had on me.
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