“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.” ― Dan Brown
Walt Disney won 22 Grammy Awards in his life time which is the highest anyone has won in history. Walt didn’t start off his life as a wunderkind, he struggled through with definiteness of purpose until he became an entrepreneur and a success with legacy indelibly showing on our TV and our children are habituated to the animated characters he invented and the entertainment world he created. The secret of Walt Disney’s creative and brilliant mind was in his tenacity, he found his purpose for living even though he was sacked from a paying job, he declared bankruptcy in 1923, his cartoon rights were stolen by a New York cartoon distributor Margret Winkler and her husband but not perturbed with the failure that greeted his early career, Disney went ahead to create a conglomerate of global attention and also become a larger than life personality.
After Disney Cartoon rights were stolen, he had a choice of given up on his dream but he rather part with his past and went ahead to invent Mickey Mouse and the friends-Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto and according to www.bography.com, in 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its title song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfs?” became a theme for the country in the midst of the Great Depression.
Many people break down after a major disappointment. So many bury their talent in the sand of complain “Oh I wish that contract came through”, “I wish my parents were rich”, “I wish I had someone to help me through school”, I wish I were working in a blue-chip” and so many ‘I wish alibi’. Disney didn’t allow a major disappointment of someone stealing his hundreds of hours of work to deter him, he rather went back to the drawing board and created some more award winning cartoons that we still live with today.
It is evident from Walt Disney story that every disappointment has in it a seed of greatness and that if you can find your purpose, do all you can to be creative at developing it and build inside-out obstinacy, you will win.