How failed dreams Led to massive success
Imagine failing a college course so badly that you can't even pronounce its name. Then getting sent home from school on a forced break because your grades were too low. Then losing your best friend in a car accident. Then watching your football dreams disappear. That was Denzel Washington's early twenties. Today, he's a two-time Oscar winner, a Tony Award winner, and according to The New York Times, the greatest actor of the 21st century. This is the real story of how Denzel Washington's failures built his success — and the speech that turned his personal philosophy into a message that's now been watched by millions of people around the world. Stay till the end, because the biggest lesson comes right at the close. PART 1: A CHILDHOOD THAT KEPT SHIFTING UNDER HIS FEET : Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. His father was a Pentecostal preacher; his mother ran a beauty salon. Money wasn't easy to come by, and the household was...