Coping with Failure

Which famous Basketball Player was cut from his High School team?

• Shaquille O'Neal

• LeBron James

• Kobe Bryant

• Michael Jordan

Which famous director was rejected from Film School 3 times?

• Christopher Nolan

• Stanley Kubrick

• Steven Spielberg

• Martin Scorsese

Whose first two automobile companies failed?

• Henry Ford

• Karl Benz

• Ferdinand Porsche

• Horace Elgin Dodge

Which comedian was booed off stage in his first stand-up comedy appearance?

• Kevin Hart

• Amy Schumer

• Chris Rock

• Jerry Seinfeld

Sir James Dyson suffered through _____ failed prototypes before he landed on the first working Dyson vacuum

• 51,260

• 51

• 5,126

• 512

1. Elvis Presley was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and was told to go back to ______

• Factory work

• 1. truck driving

• Coal mining

• working at the grocery store

Who was in the girl band "Girl's Tyme" and lost on the show Star Search?

• Beyonce Knowles

• Katy Perry

• Lady Gaga

• Jennifer Lopez

She trained to make the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team, and didn't make it

• Coco Chanel

• Donatella Versace

• Vera Wang

• Kate Spade

• He dropped out of Harvard to start his first software company, Traf-O-Data, which flopped.

• Jeff Bezos

• Michael Dell

• Bill Gates

• Mark Zuckerberg

He only sold one painting his whole career alive. Art critics back then mocked his work and called him untalented.

• Michelangelo

• Pablo Picasso

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Vincent van Gogh