Did you know that Denzel Washington first started his acting career by auditioning on a musical set? The problem was, he couldnāt sing. He didnāt have that drive, skills or passion to become something that he wasnāt meant for. He went on another search: acting for movies.
With his curiosity he thrived when he came on set for action, suspense, or thriller movies.
Oprah Winfrey started her career by anchoring the news for a local news station. She started working in something that she thought was her passion and her divine destiny. She realized that anchoring the news aināt all that glamorous for her liking and with her curiosity started a talk show on her own. The rest is history.
Jeff Bezos started his career online by selling books. Thatās all. He only sold books online and that spiraled to what is now, a multi-billion dollar company. His curios mind lead him to explore various markets like Whole Foods, The Washington Post, electronic devices, real estate and much more!
Marie Forleo, a successful entrepreneur, who sells online courses started off by teaching dance lessons, bartending, and being a life coach before she honed in on her true strengths.
The South African, Elon Musk, began his career by dabbling into the online space and created PayPal and then selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion at 31 years old! He didnāt stop there. He decided to explore his curios mind into other markets that earned his curiosity a $20 billion net worth.
A nuclear engineer, Lonnie Johnson thought he had a marvelous career when he enlisted in the Air Force. He shortly found out that, the Air Force path was not his strength. With his engineering experience he invented the āsuper soakerā a world renowned water gun. After working on his water gun for seven years he finally got a hit. A hit so huge, it generated him over $1 billion in revenue.
Get curios! Explore paths you’ve never been on.
Curiosity did not kill the cat, it made the cat successful!ā
