Learning how to fall teaches you how to land, and learning to land gives you the courage to jump higher.
Michelle Yeoh
Harvard Law School Class Day 2023, 2023
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Yeoh tells the story of her journey from Ipoh, Malaysia to the Academy Awards stage. Her first love was dance, not acting — she trained tirelessly, drilling her body in every aspect of the craft while training her mind to silence the whispers of self-doubt. Dance was her safe place, her undeniable path. Then she suffered a spinal injury and watched everything vanish. Later, breaking into Hong Kong action films, she insisted on doing all her own stunts — the choreography, the wire work, the blows — because her dance training told her she could. There were injuries: nicks, scratches, bruises, fractured vertebrae. But each one made her better and braver. The line captures her philosophy that mastering failure is not just about resilience — it's about building the confidence to attempt even greater things.