Sunday Success Story: Thomas Edison

Sunday Success Story

One of the greatest inventors not only in his time but in history as well. In his lifetime he secured over 1,000 patents, many we still use to this day. Some of his most iconic inventions are the lightbulb, phonograph, the stock ticker and the motion picture. Edison had a way of looking at objects and coming up with a method to use them in a way that had never been used before. He was told by his teachers that he was ‘too stupid to learn anything.’ Edison had only six months of schooling in his entire lifetime. He had a strong desire to invent things that had never been imagined before. Edison had a vivid imagination and understood that his imagination would carry his ideas into the physical realities of the world. He failed several times before any of his inventions became a reality (10,000 on the lightbulb alone). An incredibly persistent person he never gave up on what he truly believed in, no matter how absurd it may have seemed. Edison found his purpose in life at a young age and pursued that purpose with his heart and soul. Through years of failures and almost going bankrupt, he became one of the most recognizable names in history. Whatever your dreams and ambitions are in life remember this that during a time when the world was lit by candles and one man was crazy enough to change hundreds of years of tradition. At the flick of a switch the world was lit up by lightbulbs and electricity. Your dreams are not that crazy. If you care about them dearly, then go after them with everything you got! You may be the next great magnate that changes the conventional thinking of the world! Chase your dreams and change the world!

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