“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.”  (Anthony J D’Angelo, The College Blue Book)

Military historian Sir Antony Beevor failed his history A-level.

MRI pioneer and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield did not pass his 11-plus.

Oprah Winfrey was publicly fired from her first television job as an anchor in for getting “too emotionally invested in her stories.”

Need I say more?