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Motivational Story of Walt Disney

-Newspaper Seller to Disneyland

 “It is good to have a failure while you’re young

because it teaches you so much, and once
you’ve lived through the worst, you’re never quite
as vulnerable afterward.” 

Walter Elias Disney,was an American Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice talent & film
producer was born in a small locality in Chicago on December 5, 1901. He was one
of the five children of Mother:Flora Call Disney and father:Elias Disney The creative
talent of Walt was ignited by a township doctor who requested him to draw his horse
at the age of four
Young Walt immediately fell all over with art and steadily advanced his skills by
imitating the cartoons in newspaper. At the age of seven, Walt determined to support
himself and his struggling family by selling drawings to the person living close by and
family friends.
Walt Disney was a daydreamer in his school days. His teachers used to often find
him daydreaming or drawing casually pictures of animate beings and nature. Later
he promoted his hidden talent of storytelling and would communicate his classmates’
eccentric tales while demonstrating them on the blackboard.
Walt and his family moved to Kansas City when he was ten years old, where his
uncle found employment for him as snacks and newspapers seller beside the railway
road.
Walt used to wake up at 4:30 early morning along with his brother Roy to distribute
the newspaper before school during the rest seasons of the year. The other round of
newspaper selling used to be done after school. The exhausting job would often
make Walt fall asleep in class, but he kept on doing this work for more than six years
to support his family living.
1. He wasn’t born rich at all.
At the age of 19, Disney started drawing cartoons of the creatures from his childhood
for sale. But, he got so little money to pay the rent, often being forced to live with
friends and go without food.
2. He was told that he “lacked creativity”.
Hard to believe, but Walt Disney – the creative genius behind the Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck and many other classic cartoon characters – was written off as lacking
in creativity and artistry. When Disney pitched newspaper companies to get his
cartoons published, they shut him down saying he “lacked artistic integrity,” But,
though rejected, he kept going. He did not stop pitching his ideas.
3. He failed many times (apparently more than 300 times).
Most people won’t even put 100 attempts toward their dream .But Walt Disney failed
over 300, including the heartbreaking period when his first studio that focused on
animation called Laugh-O-Gram went bankrupt and shut down. Each time he failed,
he learnt his lesson and tried again.
4.He labored for seven years just to plan out Disneyland.
 Walt Disney labored long and hard for seven years just to plan out the project.
Whereas most people would simply give up after a year or so of trying, Disney was
determined to create what he envisioned would be the “happiest place on earth.”
5. He dropped out of high school to pursue his dream—animation.
Disney decided to only pursue work he loved.
6. He worked other jobs to fund his passion.
7.He created Mickey Mouse as a result of a bad business deal.
Disney had lost the rights to the popular character. Disney started work on another
animated character: Mortimer Mouse. His wife suggested renaming him Mickey,
which sounded happier.
8.His studio went to war during World War II--and he almost lost everything as
a result.
until 1950's Cinderella that his studio fully recovered.
9.He was “scared to death” to introduce Disneyland on television.
Walt Disney admitted to being “scared to death” when he had to face the camera to
introduce episodes of the “Disneyland” television series. But, he went through with it
anyway. He never quit in the face of fear; he pushed forward despite of it.

10.He almost didn’t finish the studio production of Snow White.

when the Snow White film finally hit the silver screen in December 21, 1937, it
brought in a then unimaginable $8 million in spite of the Depression. That’s
approximately $134 million today. The film was hailed as an “authentic masterpiece”
by Time magazine. And By the time Walt Disney died in December 15, 1966, at the
age of 65, he had epitomized the truth of his own words that, “All our dreams can
come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
When you believe in your dream as much as Disney did, even repeat failure cannot
keep you from ultimate success.

AWARDS & HONOURS

Disney, as a film producer
He won the 22 Oscars from 59 nominations.
with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, His
various films are incorporated in the National Film Registry made by the oldest
federal cultural institution called the Library of Congress.

2.An Inspirational Story: Stephen

Hawking
Early life
Stephen Hawking was born on 8 Jan 1942, which was the 300th death anniversary
of Galileo. Though he was born to a well-educated parents, the time he was born
was quite difficult as his parents did not have money back then and also the Second
World War was making life rather challenging, in search of a safer place his family
returned to Oxford, Stephen had three siblings and therefore the family had scarcity
of money.

His early school life was not outstanding, he was third from the bottom in his class
but he enjoyed board games and like geniuses do, he with his friends created their
own board games, he also made computers out of waste part to solve mathematical
equations not only this, he loved to climb, dance and rowing.

He loved mathematics but as Oxford did not have the degree he had to take up
Physics and later went in specifics of it, Cosmology.

Where he believes he was not able to spend time on studies and was paying much
attention to school on the other hand he was exploring science.

This story will help to know whether the Disability Is In The Mind or physique
He was 21 years old when he was diagnosed with ALS, it all started in Oxford when
he began to notice that he would trip and fall or slur his speech, till 1963 he ignored it
but it was his father who took notice of this condition and took him to the doctor. A
series of tests diagnosed that its  ALS, which is when the nerves that control
muscles were failing. He was told that he wouldn’t survive more than two years.
when everyone had lost hope then Stephen had a dream that he was going to be
executed and he believes this disease helped him to become the scientist he is
today, as he says “Before my condition was diagnosed, I had been very bored with
life, there had not seemed to be anything worth doing.” With the sudden realisation
that he might not even live long enough to earn his PhD, Hawking dedicated all his
energies to his work and research. In one of his interviews he also mentioned – “My
expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a
bonus.”
Lesson For Us
He did not recover from his disease and it made him physically weak in time, but
what kept him going was his willingness to work from the mind as he says “Although
I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
Death has to come but the life which we have between birth and death is up to us
and it’s our will how we want to live. As he says – “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in
no hurry to die.” (Stephen Hawking)