Resilience:the Nexus Between Success and Failure

1.Sir William Robertson(1860 – 1933 ):The first and only British soldier to ever rise from the rank of a Private to become a Field Marshal.

2.William Jennings Bryan ( 1860 – 1925 ): This American lawyer and politician was trounced at the 1896,1900 and 1908 Presidential elections and later became a Secretary of State in the government of Woodrow Wilson( 1913 – 15.) He was a brilliant orator, social reformer and an international advocate of peace. He was the prosecutor of the famous Dayton ( Ohio ) trial of 1925.

3.Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( 1882 – 1945 ):In 1920, he was unsuccessful in his bid to become America’s Vice President. The following year, he was stricken with infantille paralysis (polio) but was lucky to recover and re-enter public life becoming the Governor of New York in 1929. He was the first American to serve as US President for more than two terms.