“It has been said that failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker,” says Denis Waitley. “Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. We often look at high achievers and assume they had a string of lucky breaks or made it without much effort. Usually the opposite is true, and the so-called superstar or ‘overnight success’ had an incredibly rough time before he or she attained any lasting success.”
One good example, one of my favorites, anyway, 
is The Beatles. I mentioned before their struggle for that first record contract. They certainly seem to have come from nowhere when they swept across the country back in the mid-1960s. By the time we first saw on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 1964, the “overnight sensation” Beatles had been playing together, at least some of them, for seven years. They had performed literally hundreds and hundreds of shows, sometimes three and four a day, sometimes a dozen or more hours a day, often for little or no money. By the time they arrived in the US, no band had paid more dues than The Beatles.
