Losing big? 10 M Inspirational Story
Making mistakes can make You really feel down and it is easy to get
overwhelmed by grief self-pity and depression.
That is precisely the time when You need a dose of empathy to ramp up.
So here is this story I read a while ago and I believe it is a true story.
Hope You will find it interesting and it can help You to take a new breath.
Quite a few years back there was a guy that worked on Wall Street. First he spent years and fortune in education as you can imagine...
Finally he went out into the real world to apply what he had learned. He got a job on Wall Street and was hired by a big stock broker company and his future looked really bright.
A few months had passed and things were looking up and his trading skills were improving all the time. But then one day out of nowhere something BAD happened.
He had made a catastrophic mistake while trading. And felt like crying.
He had lost his company $10 million dollars.
Yes, this new guy had lost his company $10 million dollars while trading.
He felt sick, he wanted to throw up and was scared to death. How was he going to pay his boss back this money? Plus now he was presumably without job. Man without reputation,with no one who would ever hire him...
Whe finally took up the courage, he walked into the officeof his boss His head down in shame, took a deep breath and said something like:
"I have made a gigantic mistake while trading and lost the company $10 million dollars.
I am really sorry..."
The guy then quickly walked out of the office, feeling absolutely devastated.. He walked back to his desk and began packing his belongings up. He was about to leave when his boss comes over to him and said: "What are you doing?"
The guy replied "I'm packing all of my belongings up and leaving because I'm now fired"
His Boss replies "Fired..who said you are Fired?"
The guy then says "Well I've just lost you $10 million dollars so I'm fired, I understand.
His Boss replies " No no no, Absolutely Not."
He tells him to come back into his office and sit down.
His Boss then says to him:
"I've just spent $10 million dollars on your education.
Do you think I'm now going to let you go? Not a chance".
"You now know what not to do and you will never do it, again will you?" he said..
Even if you make mistakes at least you can learn from them and move on.
That is the recipe for success: To treat failure as education and learn from it.
Treat everything you do as education no matter how small or big it is.
The guy that sent me this story struggled many years to figure how achieve affiliate online income. Eventually he became a superaffiliate and he developed a system in which he makes affiliate commissions even with small amount of traffic.
Otherwise I hope You enjoyed this story. Have a great educating day!
Recent Comments
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Hi Claxton. That's a fantastic story. Most of us make big losses (maybe not 10mil) on our way to success.
All the best. Jim
Some losses have money figure attached to them, other are not so easily visible. Often time is lost, relationships are damaged..but on our way we need inspiration to make us persevere. Ever since childhood I liked to read some sort of inspirational stories.