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Marvelous mistakes

Marvelous mistakes

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Marvelous mistakes

(upbeat music) - Okay, listen carefully. Screwing up is where it's at. Oh, watch out, camera. I mean that. Anyone who wants to be really successful has to push hard enough to endure mistakes, setbacks and failures and guess what? Those mistakes can be marvelous. They can be catalysts for learning if you make that choice. Let me try and model that for you and just make fun of myself a little bit. I have a wonderful job as a professional speaker and well, I wasn't always that good. Maybe 10 years ago when I was still a rookie, I got a call from a very large company I know that you've heard of and I was so excited. It was proof that I had arrived and I went to the right hotel at the right time ready to give the big speech. We had cameras, we had lighting, big introduction. I took the stage smiling, very happy that day. Look at me and then I opened my mouth and started speaking. Their disinterest was very, very obvious. No more obvious than at the very end when I said thank you and that…

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