It sometimes help to read about people who have succeeded in life. Those who gave all it takes to achieve, invent and develop products, services and policies that have made the world a beautiful place.
Today we will be reviewing a great inventor Thomas Edison whose contributions have made the world a better place to live.
Before i go go on, i would like to say that the importance of this review is for readers learn from this great man and outline traits identified.
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Brief History of Thomas Edison.
Background: Born in Milan, Ohio on Feb 11, 1847. The youngest of seven siblings of his parents. His parents were middle class though they were not wealthy.
Education: He acquired 3 months form education( a school dropout) but love reading which means he did more of personal development.
Economic Journey.
He started as a street hawker, sold candy, vegetable and newspapers. He worked as a telephone operator for western Union. and sold his investment of $10,000 in quadruplx telegraph to Western Union in order to set up his laboratory and focus on his dreams.
Challenges.
He developed severe deafness which left him about 90% deaf. He took his deafness in his stride and not saw it a s disability.
Achievements.
- He developed the first audio recording device
- He started production of electric light bulb
- he made electric light affordable for everyone.
- He maintained strong belief in non-violence
- He invented the first motion picture
- He was involved in first electric train to depart from Hoboken in 1930.
Lesson Learned.
He trained his mind to see possibilities and not impossibilities. Failure to him was opportunity to better understand situations he faced.
What we sometimes see is impossibility. we consider people who failed and as a result get discourage in pursuing our goal.
You need to redefine your mindset to see possibilities and believe that it only requires you, your mindset, you vision and drive that determine possibilities. Not even theories, not even history can define it for for you. If it is possible to you, then it is achievable.
"if we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves"
Thomas Edison
He was able to sacrifice what he was(a $10,000 shareholder) for what what he would become.
Are you willing to let go of that which you have for that which you will become? You must be ready to succeed by investing what you have into what you want to become.
"We dont know a millionth of one percent about anything" Thomas Edison
He kept trying and failure became his best way of learning. He never gave up and he never got discouraged.
"When you keep believing, you keep trying. By then it doesn't really matter how long it took to succeed. what matters is the success" Michael Adeleye
"During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work wad deductive and the results I achieved were those of inventions, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory". Thomas Edison
Conclusion: We all have millions of reasons why we cant become a winner, at the same time we have few reasons why we can become a winner. The truth is: the million reasons why we cant succeed are mere excuses. so i encourage you today to ignore your weaknesses and focus on your strength, do all you have to do(not evil) to achieve all you have to achieve.
