Bolaji Oyejide shared these questions, the genesis of a book he’s writing. I’m not in the same league as the folks he’s targeting, but I know to be successful I have to act like I’m successful, so I’m going to answer these questions five years in the future when I’m where I know I’ll be.
1. Tell us of a time or two when you felt at your lowest. What caused it, how did you feel?
2. Who knocked you down, stonewalled you, or overlooked you, before you became famously successful? And what effect did it have?
3. Tell us of a time that a monumental failure got the best of you.
4. In times of self-doubt, where did you draw the strength to persevere from?
5. How did you build up your perseverance “muscle”?
6. How did you combat fear, uncertainty, or feelings of not being good enough?
7. How did you believe you could achieve the unachievable? could do things no one had ever done before? There was no precedent for it. What made YOU feel so special to think/know that you would succeed?
8. What three failures most contributed to who you are today?
9. What audacious thing do you fail at today that you know you will succeed at in the future?
10. Who’s a person of perseverance you think we should add to this book?
