The document provides examples of failures and rejections faced by successful individuals in order to encourage the reader to take chances. It describes Ulysses S. Grant being dismissed from various jobs before finding success, Michael Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team, and Thomas Edison being told he was "too stupid to learn." The document also mentions Walt Disney being fired for a lack of imagination and Abraham Lincoln facing many defeats but ultimately overcoming challenges. It concludes by stating that if you haven't failed you haven't lived and there is nothing you can't rise above or grow beyond.

1. Take A Chance.
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2. Dismissed...
...from drama school, with a note that
read: “Wasting her time; she’s too shy to
put her best foot forward”...

4. Turned Down...
...by the Decca Recording Company,
who said: “We don’t like their sound, and
guitar music is on the way out”...

6. A Failed...
...soldier, farmer, and real estate agent, at
38 years old, he went to work with his
father as a handyman...

7. Ulysses S. Grant

8. Cut...
...from the high school basketball team,
he went home, locked himself in his
room, and cried...

9. Michael Jordan

10. A Teacher Once Said...
...he was “too stupid to learn anything,
and he should go into a field where he
might succeed by virtue of his pleasant
personality”...

11. Thomas Edison

12. Fired...
...from a newspaper because he “lacked
imagination and had no original ideas”...

13. Walt Disney

14. His...
...fiancé died, he failed in business
(twice), he had a nervous breakdown,
and he was defeated in eight elections...

16. If you have never failed,
then you have never lived.

17. And there is nothing you can’t
live down, rise above, or grow beyond.

18. Take a chance.

19. Ascendi ®
Rise Above. Grow Beyond.
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