If you ever feel stuck...

We all have those ruts in the road of life. The mud pits that we can't seem to get out of no matter what. You know what I'm talking about.
But they don't last forever. You just have to keep moving.

Here are three examples of people who did just that.

1.
We all know Albert Einstein as the renowned scientist and perhaps the most influential thinker of the twentieth century, but we don't really know what he was like as a child.
Well, I'll tell you.
He was extremely cautious in his speech, often analyzing and rehearsing the sentences he would say before he actually said them aloud, until he was nine years old. His explanation for why he seldom spoke before that was that 'Everything was in order'.
As a teenager, he failed at his entrance exams for the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School and had to retake all standard history, geography and language studies for an entire year before he could pass.

2.
You know how the Phantom Menace is hailed as the worst of the Star Wars franchise?
(I sometimes wonder what it's like for the people who put so much work and sacrifice into making films like that, only to have them hated. I mean, I understand that somewhere along the line someone was messing up bad, but what about everyone else? (Oh, yeah. That's right. I went through that very thing this weekend :P college placement test))
Anyways, so I just wanted to point something out in Star Wars episode one.
                                                       See the guard at Padme's right?

                                                            He look familiar? Another!
                             (The one with the box around his head. Thanks, whoever did that)

                                                                             Yes? No?

                                                                      How about now?

Yeah, that was him the entire time.

(I'd like to talk to him about that sometime. That and Tolkien stuff. Evidently he was a huge fan. I wonder if he still has Orcrist. Hm.)

3.                                                                                                                                                            

In the Marvel Universe, Daredevil appears from Hell's Kitchen to fight crime. In the real world, Sylvester Stallone does to fight his own limitations.

Sylvester was not only born in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the U. S., but was born with half of his face paralyzed, resulting in his speech being slurred for the rest of his life. When he was nine, his parents divorced, and when he was sixteen he too failed at school and had to work in his mother's beauty salon.

At the age of twenty-four he appeared in a pornographic feature film out of desperation as he had been evicted from his apartment a few weeks beforehand and had been sleeping in a bus terminal.

Stallone's roughened, slightly off-kilter appearance won him various other background roles in low reputation films and crime shows. As a side-line he cleaned out the lion cages at the local zoo.

Then, after watching a boxing match, he started writing a story.

That story went on to become the legend boxing series, Rocky.

Film studios were at first interested, but only if they could cast the film themselves. Stallone refused, stating that he had to play the main character and he wouldn't sell if anyone else did.

His entire career skyrocketed after Rocky's debut, and now Stallone is listed as one of the most famous actors of all time.

(Personally, I've only seen his role in Oscar, but even off that, his acting is phenomenal)