One of the most common source of failure is ability to quit when one is faced with a temporary defeat, everyone is quilty of this mistake at one point or the other.

Look at uncle Darby's story!!!

Uncle Darby was caught by *gold fever* in a gold rush and went west to *dig and grow rich*

*He has never heard that more gold has been mined from men's brain than been digged from the earth (please read this again until you understand)*

He stake a claim and went to work with shovel, the going was tough but his lust for gold was definite.

After weeks of labor he was rewarded with a shining ore, he needed machine to bring the ore to the surface, he quietly covered the earth, he went home called family together and they gathered money for the machine.

They mine the first car of the ore, the second and even third, until something happened, the vein of the ore got blocked, they dig and dig but they couldn't find it so they Quit and sold the machinery to a junk!! For few dollars and took the next train home sadly

This time around he was not anyhow junk but an intelligent one, he called a mining engineer to do some calculations, his calculations showed the vein stop due to fault and could be found just 3feets from where Darby stopped the drilling and that is exactly where it was found.

The junk made several millions of dollars because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.

Most of the procurement for the machinery was made by darby so he spend years repaying the debts.

He went into insurance business, this time around he has learned a great lesson, he now make millions of dollars in his insurance business yearly.

What lesson did Darby learnt?