What was his pursuit and his inspirations that made him accomplish so much?
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent
perspiration.” Thomas Alva Edison, Harper’s Monthly (September 1932 edition).
Having gone through the biography of Thomas Edison, it made
realize so much about life, challenges, handling difficulties and pursuing your
greatest passion. Edison was a business man as well as an inventor who had so
little to begin life with.
He was born on the 11th day of February, 1847.
Milan, Ohio, U.S. and he died heroically on the 18th day of October,
1931 in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. (aged 84). His father ran away from his
family for a disclosed reason. He was American with a reported Dutch ancestry.
He developed many devices that greatly influenced life
around the world, including the PHONOGRAPH, the MOTION PICTURE CAMERA, and the
first long-lasting, practical electric light bulb which lasted for 13.5 hours.
He is so prolific in his inventions that he holds 1,093 US patents in the
United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
His education life was not so buoyant, as he was downed by
his teacher because he has a wandering mind which prompted him (the reverend
Engle) to call him “addled”. This ended Edison’s three months of
official schooling. He recalled later, and said, “My mother is the making of
me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for,
someone I must not disappoint.” His mother taught him at home. Much of his
education came from reading R.G. parker’s school of Natural Philosophy and The
cooper Union. HE MADE THE BEST OF HIS INABILITY TO COMPLETE NORMAL SCHOOL
PROCESS.
He developed
hearing problem when he was thrown off a moving train along with his apparatus
when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire in the train in Smiths
Creek, Michigan.
When his
family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, his life there was a living hell. Edison
was young; he sold candy and newspaper on trains running from
Port Huron to Detroit, and sold vegetables to supplement his income. He
was able to struggle and studied qualitative analysis, and conducted chemical
experiments on the train until an accident halted further work of that kind.
Edison then
obtained the official right to sell newspaper on the road, where he began a
type and print publication called the
Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers. This was how his
entrepreneurial ventures began, as e discovered his talents in business. These
talents eventually led him to found 14 companies, including General Electric,
which is still one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world today.
I hope you
can get inspired by how determined he was even to the extent that he had to sell stuffs just to survive and
make ends meet in his journey of life. Of course, he was successful in doing it
all. I will be sharing more of his inventions with you in my next week
publication. Nothing is
going to happen to that your vision except you do something about it. Am
so inspired right now, I wish you could be too.
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God bless you.
I remain your humble professional life coach, mentor
/counselor, inspired by the holy-spirit.
Samuel
C.A. James
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