MotivationBiography
Dancing Again
At sixteen, Sudha Chandran was a rising young classical dancer. Then an accident on the road took her leg. Everyone assumed her dancing days were over. She did not.
Motivation & Personal Growth
Stories about failure, discipline, courage, patience, confidence and starting again.
For teenagers and adults · 11 stories
MotivationBiography
Never Too Late
Anna Mary Moses spent her life on farms, raising a family and doing endless chores. In her late seventies she picked up a paintbrush. The world came to know her as Grandma Moses.
MotivationBiography
The Deaf Composer
On a spring evening in Vienna in 1824, a packed theatre heard a new symphony for the first time. The man who wrote it could not hear a single note.
MotivationBiography
The Forest Man
As a teenager in Assam, Jadav Payeng found a bare sandbank in the Brahmaputra river, scorched by the sun. He began planting trees on it. Decades later, tigers and elephants walk through his forest.
MotivationBiography
The Mountain Man
In a poor village in Bihar, a labourer picked up a hammer and a chisel and began to cut a path through a rocky hill. Everyone laughed. He kept going for twenty-two years.
MotivationTrue story
The Night Edison's Factory Burned
In December 1914, a fire tore through Thomas Edison's laboratory and factories. He was 67, and much of his life's work was in flames. What he did next is the story.
MotivationBiography
The Girl Who Was Told She Would Never Walk
As a child, Wilma Rudolph wore a metal brace on her leg after polio. At twenty, she became the fastest woman in the world.
MotivationTrue story
Twelve Seconds at Kitty Hawk
Two brothers who ran a bicycle shop failed again and again to fly. So they went back to the beginning, built their own wind tunnel and checked everything for themselves.
MotivationBiography
Born Again on the Mountain
In 2011, Arunima Sinha lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train. Two years later she stood on the summit of Mount Everest.
MotivationFable & folk tale
The King and the Spider
Defeated, hunted and hiding in a cave, King Robert the Bruce of Scotland was ready to give up. Then he watched a spider try, and fail, and try again.
MotivationOriginal story
The Day a Rejection Became a New Beginning
Anaya had planned her whole future around one letter. When it said no, she discovered that the door she'd been staring at was not the only one in the room.