Themes
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Jordan piles up his misses, lost games and blown last shots like a ledger of failure. Then he flips it with 'that is why I succeed.' Failure becomes the raw material of success, not its opposite.
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