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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball player and author

United States · b. 1947

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The NBA's leading scorer for thirty-eight years and a six-time champion, who has since written more than a dozen books of history and memoir.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 79 other answers →
I had self doubts when I was a freshman in high school. I was 14 years old and not very mature, and there were a few incidents in my freshman year. I learned in a very competitive environment. The high school environment that I played in was very intense, and I learned how to be stoic and go out and compete.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1 January 1989 source ↗

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