If at First You Flop: Entrepreneur Sees Life Lesson in Baby Dolphin's Attempts to Master Jumping

While visiting California for business, Michelle Dickinson saw a dolphin calf getting to grips with the basics of jumping while on a dolphin-watching trip out of Santa Barbara.

The young dolphin can be seen enthusiastically jumping high out of the water as a pod calmly swims beside it, in the video recorded on Valentine’s Day.

An entrepreneur, Dickinson gleaned some life lessons from watching the animal. “I was lucky enough to watch a baby dolphin learning to jump and it ended mostly with a belly flop,” she wrote on Facebook. “Nevertheless it kept on trying. It reminded me that we all have to start somewhere in life and in business and although you might not feel like the most graceful in the water today, persistence and hard work will hopefully pay off in the end.” Credit: Dr Michelle Dickinson via Storyful