Succeeding by Elimination
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 509 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I recently read that Thomas Edison invented so many different things: the stock ticker, the automatic telegraph, the electric safety miner’s lamp that they wear, the fluorescent lights and the motion picture camera, even the electric vote recorder. Quite amazing.
Now, if you read about this, it says that he was struggling with the light bulb. For whatever reason, he was not able to succeed and this is what he said: “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work, but when I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” This is called “succeeding by elimination”. (more…)
