The best early indicator of success is success, go youtube video's of Lebron highlights from high school. It looks like Lebron James playing a bunch of highschoolers.
Galen Rupp is the best American distance runner right now. He has run a 12:58 5k and won a silver medal in the 10k at the 2012 Olympics. That 12:58 is a forty second improvement from his best time he ran, in high school.
There are so few examples of people that are huge successes that started out as failures in their field. Sometimes you hear stories of JK Rowling who wrote Harry Potter. She finished the first novel on her severance pay and government assistance and is now literally richer than the queen of England. But let's be clear, she was not fired from writing novels.
It's probably more clear with athletes than anybody else but I think it still holds true for many, many professions.
Somebody once asked me where I learned to tell such great stories. I remember telling stories when I was five and I kept telling them ever since because people kept listening.
I think the hidden agenda behind failing your way to success is the fact that we want to be able to get what we WANT whether or not we are good at it or it is good for us. We hope that our desire for something is enough to get it. We have faith in our desires.
Maybe we should stop buying into marketing and start enjoying the lives we have right in front of us. In the Bible Paul refers to kicking a thornbush. That's a fitting analogy. You may not have found what you are best at yet, but you probably have found what you are not best at yet. Enjoy the journey of life but don't get caught up kicking thornbushes because society says being x, y or z is more special.
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