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of trial and error. He was not afraid to make hundreds, or even thousands,
of mistakes before figuring something out.
“Our greatest weakness lies (состоит в том, чтобы) in giving up. The
most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —
Thomas Edison
 Henry Ford: The success story of Henry Ford is one that is also well-
known. Henry Ford, as you all know, is the father of the automobile
and creator of the assembly line (линии сборки). He helped bring
transportation to the masses in America with his Ford Model T car.
But what you may not know was that his first company went
bankrupt. Even his second company also went bankrupt.
Exercise 529. Read and discuss an article.
The Stories Of These 5 Athletes Will Motivate Everyone Of You
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/the-stories-these-5-
athletes-will-motivate-everyone-you.html
 Michael Jordan, basketball player. “When you’re in a rhythm
during the season, you’re going to fail seven out of 10 times,”- Mark
Texeira, Yankees
Michael Jordan has been praised to the skies (расхваливали до небес)
and is often referred (о котором говорят, как) to as the best basketball
player of all time. He attributes his success to (он относит свой успех)
his many failures because he has claimed they made him try even harder.
They certainly did not discourage (сдерживать) him. When he was very
young, he was not even thought to have a great talent. He was cut from
the high school basketball team. He has actually counted his failures and
they include 300 lost games and he has missed taking the game winning
shot 26 times. Most champions are discouraged and unmotivated by
failures but Michael Jordan had the right attitude and regarded
(рассматривали) them as the recipe for his success.
 Bethany Hamilton, surfer. Bethany Hamilton grew up in Hawaii so
it is not surprising to learn that by the age of 7, she was already able
to surf waves. In 2003, a terrible tragedy struck (трагедия
случилась) when a shark bit off (акула откусила) her left arm. As
she recovered, she made two promises to herself. The first was that
she would not moan (ныл) about her terrible misfortune
(невезенье) and the second was that she would get back on the
surfboard. Another person would have been resigned to failure. But
not Bethany Hamilton. After only 26 days, she was surfing again!
She is now ranked as among the top 50 female surfers in the world.
She also won first prize in the Explorer Women’s Division of the
NSSA National Championships.
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