What Taylor Swift, Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan can teach us about embracing failure

In this feature for Entrepreneur.com, Legacy+ co-founder Craig Kielburger considers the importance of failure in the development of any entrepreneur. Like the old saying goes: It’s not the number of times you fall down that count – it’s the number of times you get back up.

Date: December 27, 2023

Success is a word that resonates with us all. It’s the fulfillment of our goals and dreams, and, for entrepreneurs, it typically means the pay-off associated with creating a popular and profitable product or business.

As a society, we celebrate those who reach the pinnacle of success, but we tend to overlook the bumpy road they’ve traveled to get there — one that’s often filled with failures, disappointments and countless setbacks.

Becoming an entrepreneur usually means failure is less of a possibility so much as a virtual certainty. So, entrepreneurs must be resilient and learn to overcome rejections, obstacles and outright failure to realize their dreams.

So, let’s consider the example of some amazing entrepreneurs who have failed, got up, dusted themselves off and become huge successes – people like Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, Michael Jordan and Taylor Swift.

Read the full column on Entrepreneur.com