Tuesday, October 29, 2024

The number is 1,093. The amount of patents secured by Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor and experimentor the world has ever seen. For instance, when it came to the filament for the inside of the light bulb, Edison even tried beard hair. He never saw failure in his attempts, just ways that did not work and he...as we wrote and talked

about on Friday, October 25, he found ways to reinvent.

His subjects, yes. And himself.

All that came to Edison weren't ideas. They are things that came to him because he was in the lab. He was at the right place at the right time to keep working at it. "There's no such thing as an idea being brain-born," Edison would say.

"Everything comes from the outside. The industrious ones coax it from the environment... The 'genius' hangs around his laboratory day and night. If anything happened he's there to catch it; if he wasn't, it might happen just the same, only it would never be his."

We just have to put ourselves in the arena. Edison is simply telling us to show up everyday, regardless of the outcome and that is our greatest influence in what we face.

Doing the work, every day. Success is a lagging indicator, and this is how it's achieved.