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Be Amazed

Real Stories Proving You Should Never Give Up

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Achieving your dreams can be an incredibly difficult feat. But the difference between success and failure is choosing not to give up. Let's see what stories of successful people can teach us about the road to success. The inspiring stories of notable high achievers such as Jack Ma, Jim Carrey, Stephen King and Stephen Hawking should give you that extra motivation to keep going!



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0:00.0

Achieving your dreams can be an incredibly difficult feat,

0:03.4

but the difference between success and failure is choosing not to give up.

0:08.0

Let's see what these stories can teach us about the road to success.

0:14.0

You're listening.

0:15.5

You're listening.

0:16.7

You're listening to be amazed well well well in 2016 a small village in india was afflicted with a severe drought the local wells

0:32.3

had dried out and things were getting pretty dire after the wife of bapapurau Tanya, a poor laborer from the

0:39.3

village was denied water by the owner of the only nearby well that still had some,

0:44.3

Tanya vowed that his family would never have to ask anyone for water again.

0:49.3

He was going to dig his own well, so with some newly acquired tools and a huge amount of willpower, he chose a spot and began digging.

0:57.9

Tanya had no training in well digging, and this made him the subject of ridicule from his fellow villagers.

1:04.0

But Tanya could not be stopped. He believed in himself, and he rose early each day, digging for four hours before leaving for work,

1:11.5

then putting in two more hours of backbreaking labor when he returned home.

1:15.4

For 40 consecutive days, he dug further and further into the earth alone until he finally struck

1:21.3

water. Currently, he provides hydration to the people of his village, including the naysayers.

1:26.7

The next story is about someone a little more well-known than Boparaltanya.

1:31.4

Since founding e-commerce giant Alibaba in 1999, Jack Maiz become a giant in the tech and trade

1:38.4

industries. With an estimated net worth of $23.1 billion, Ma has created an empire of epic abortions due to his strong

1:47.2

vision and understanding of the internet's business potential. But life wasn't always so triumphant for

1:53.0

him. After graduating from university in 1988, Ma faced extreme difficulties getting even

1:59.7

minimum wage work. He applied to 30 jobs in Hangzhou, the city he grew up in, and was rejected by every single one.

2:08.6

He applied to KFC, which had recently opened in town.

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