Michael Jordan's early days in basketball were less than glorious. In fact most of us would never have expected him to ever accomplish even anything remotely close to the level of success he enjoys even to this day in terms of notoriety, and market value even after his final NBA game was on April 16, 2003 in Philadelphia.
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One key component to his amazing success was that he kept showing up, and kept taking shots. In Jordan's own words:
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot,
