Jordan methodically listed every personal rejection he’d ever experienced in his career and explained how much it had fueled him—from his high school coach not picking him for the varsity team to his college roommate being named Carolina Player of the Year instead of him; from the opponent’s coach who prohibited his team from fraternizing with Jordan to the media naysayers who claimed he wasn’t as talented as Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. Jordan’s speech revealed a side of him that his carefully crafted PR image had successfully hidden from the world—how he consistently used rejection as
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