Post Written By Eugene Morgan
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
What patience that Thomas Edison had when he found out what worked and what didn’t work. Thomas Edison had an attitude that finding out what didn’t work was just as good as finding out what did. We won’t know if we don’t try and see what works and what doesn’t. This takes a lot a time and energy. But our patience is required during this process of trial and error. When one thing won’t work, we are forced to think up the next best thing that has the possibility to work. When that won’t work, we then find out why this approach is not as effective as getting the results we want. The information we got from the previous attempts may help us carefully construct another approach that may get us closer to our goal. Thomas Edison’s 9,999th attempt was much closer to his goal than his first attempt.