WORTH READING 28 Jun 2005

Refusing to Accept Failure

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29,
1953
he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight
up. He
was knighted for his efforts.

He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However,
until
we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had
to
grow into this success.

You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few
weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.

Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was
recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a
failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the
platform.

He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a
loud
voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the
next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm
still
growing!"

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