If you’re dragging your feet at the end of the working week and believing you’ll never get anywhere, this video could be the perfect antidote.

It tells the stories of the failures that propelled some of the world’s biggest success stories. These stars let criticism roll off their backs and never stopped dreaming big.

Can you imagine if Michael Jordan had given up when cut from his high school basketball team? Or if Lucille Ball had quit after her dismissal from drama school?

If these folks could pick themselves up when they were down and achieve such great things, just imagine what you can do!