At work with Thomas Edison

At Work With Thomas Edison

This is one of the books which when I read will leave me unable to deicide if I want to take notes at that junction.

He has made me understand truly who Edison is, and how great a man he is.

Society punishes failures, Edison ended up broke and what that has happened is, is that he has been grouped as an inventor, yet in reality, he is an entrepreneur.

Here is someone, positive, being deaf, he commented how many times, if he was not deaf, how he would be unable to be as creative as he is able to today.

This is an epitome of positive thinking, how a bad trait can be seen as a good one and used as an advantage.

Here is someone who encourages failures and sees it as fail successfully, not the way society judge failures. I’ve learnt from the book and compared about how students see failures, as in class tests, they see it as embarrassing; this is sooo embarrassing to fail this test. Is embarrassment considered a failure?

Edison invented the light bulb, but if he did not think of the power stations and sorts that could continuously generate revenue, what use would there be of the bulb?

He invented systems not products. One system after another that made money.

Examples like the light bulbs of electric companies, similar to pub in Singapore, General Electric, and The trains of the railways tracks, similar to MRT. Metal discs of Phonographs where he made more money selling his metal tins meant for recording the songs than the equipment itself.

All these shows systems in place. He rarely sold products. He sold systems.

Edison glowed but he never burnt himself out. Like his successful light bulb, which used materials that produced light but did not consume itself, he allowed his passion to lat beyond 3 minutes but for his whole lifetime.