October 2nd, 2012 - by Robby Slaughter

Every week, million of viewers tune in to watch Rick Harrison on Pawn Stars. He’s a high school dropout.

This information comes from the celebrity news site Starcasm, which references Harrison’s new autobiography.:

He dropped out of high school in the 10th grade, and that he has an insatiable love of books and thirst for knowledge. If only more high school graduates had that last bit.

Rick first fell in love with books when he was eight years old, and began suffering horrific grand mal epileptic seizures. He feared for his life, and after he had one he’s been laid up in bed for about ten days. During that time, he feasted on books.

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Long time readers of the Failure Book Blog may recognize this story. It sounds like what happened to another Hollywood legend. That man is Martin Scorsese, who suffered from asthma as a child.

Countless successes grow out of failure early in life. The concert violinist Itzhak Perlman contracted polio at the age of 4. President Bill Clinton grew up watching his mother be abused—and later passed the Violence Against Women Act. Jack London, Louis Armstrong, H.G. Wells and many more dropped out of high school. Failure is the secret to success.

That’s not to say that you should quit school, leave a job or wish for a debilitating illness. But rather, that adversity is what makes success meaningful and possible. Don’t fear failure. Instead: embrace it.

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I’ve taught for 25 years and have a MA in education. There are rich and
poor kids at my school. My observation of the last 25 years is that
rich parents won’t put up with their kid being a failure and early on
have instilled the importance of education into the kid. Dropping out
is not even thought of in these kids, but rather how high I can push my
GPA/Class Rank/SAT/ACT so I can move on to a big name school and make
major money like my folks have. My poorer kids often don’t have that.
They don’t do homework, behave, study for tests, parents don’t show up
for open house, they fight, are lazy, their attendance is often bad, in
short they don’t do what it takes to be successful. Not every single
one, but many of them, a complete “class” difference in how you handle
school. If you don’t pay attention and you don’t do your homework and
you fail your test, that’s on you, not the school. Let me go one step
further. If you look at how much money a parent makes and their level
of education and compare it to the kids SAT score, there is a totally
direct correlation between the two.

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