A Dirty Little Secret to Success

Last night, a tweet popped up in my feed.  Feels weird to even write that.  As I threw in the towel on Twitter in 2014.  Three months ago, if you told me I would be using Twitter for business, I would have laughed in your face.  And told you to remove the tin foil hat from your head.  And go back to your bunker. Anywhoo... Like I was saying, a tweet popped up in my feed that read:  Freelancing is the quickest + easiest way to get started making money. You literally aren’t risking a single thing except your ego from rejection. Who cares? No one asks Kobe how many shots he’s missed in his career. This young buck is right.  The "quickest" way to make money online is to do freelancing.  Provide a SPECIFIC type of service for a SPECIFIC type of person.  Ain't much harder than that.  Like this guy said, the only "risk" is your ego from rejection.  You will face rejection....heaps of it.  Most won't share that part.  Certainly not the ones selling a course on it.  He referenced Kobe, and since I am a waste basket of useless sports knowledge, I want to share a startling statistic about Kobe Bryant.  He's widely considered a top 10 player of all time.  Most would say he's in the #5 - #8 range of all time players.  His career field goal percentage is 44.7% Meaning he missed 55.3% of his shots.  He missed MORE shots than he made.  He "FAILED" more times than he succeeded.  A MASSIVE lesson to be learned there.  It doesn't matter what line of work you're in, you're going to fail.  You'll likely fail more times than you succeed.  I would guesstimate that I fail 8 times out of 10.  So I probably wouldn't make a great NBA player.  It doesn't help that I measure in at 5' 8 3/4 inches either. Every 1/4 inches helps.  I also have a horrible jump shot.  A vertical leap just shy of 14 inches.  Ok, so I have a few things working against me that prevents me from playing in the NBA.  It's not a "failure" if you learn from it.  And it's most certainly not a failure if you share the lesson you learn from the "failure".  I take pride in sharing my losses with people.  As I know I can help others avoid the same idiotic mistakes I have made. It sure gives me a truckload of content 🤣 Just my attempt at turning lemons into lemonade.  The ones who embrace failure, are the ones who succeed.  I guess you could call this a dirty little secret of success.  Failure is inevitable.