If you talk to any successful person,
she can give you a long list
of her failures.
She can also usually
point to ONE failure
that made her who she is today.
In a Saturday Night Live skit,
Leslie Jones
shared
“You know what happened
to Oprah
at 23?
She got fired!
Imagine firing Oprah.”
When her cohost said
that was a mistake,
she responded with
“No. It wasn’t.
‘Cause she wasn’t Oprah.
She was just some 23 year old punk
who needed to get fired
so she could become Oprah.
Sometimes you gotta fail
to succeed.”