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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
50 Cent Made His Money Off A Possible Failure
You might think that rappers become rich and famous because of royalties on their music or money from concert tours. But one rapper made more money on one investment that on anything he’d done with his music career.
Rapper 50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III, got his first taste of fame on a song called “React” with the group named Onyx on their 1998 album, Shut ‘Em Down. He became more popular after the controversial single, “How to Rob”, but his rising star was stopped by a shooting that nearly took his life. He was shot nine times in the arm, hand, hip, chest, both legs, and his his left cheek. Once he recovered, he worked hard and after hooking up with Eminem and G-Unit, he became wildly famous after he released Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
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But his decision to become a rapper wasn’t what helped him become so incredibly wealthy. Among all his investments, Jackson’s work with Glacéau to create a vitamin water drink called Formula 50 in return for a minority stake in the company is what turned out to be his wisest move. Coca Cola Company bought Vitamin Water from Glaceau for $4.1 billion and made Jackson more money than he had ever made from making music.
Many celebrities are just like everyone else and they have to make diverse investments. And sometimes, you make the most money not from doing what you love, but from doing something that just happened to work out. In this case, NOT focusing on your goal 100%, which can usually be considered a failure, was the secret to success.
