In the book Three Feet from Gold my co-author and I interviewed more than thirty-five of today's top leaders, not about their successes but about their toughest moments and how they perservered to achieve great success. For example, Julie Krone, the first woman ever inducted into the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame, with 3,704 victories under her reins, described her struggles at the beginning of her career as a jockey. Many of the horse owners simply would not hire a woman jockey. She said her motto of perseverance was, "Keep showing up!"  She said, "I discovered if I show up every day and did my best, eventually they'd put me on a horse just to get rid of me." The rest is history. Julie was named as one of the toughest athletes of all time by USA Today.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 "Edison converted failure into a stepping stone to achievement while the others used it as a an alibi for not producing results."