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How Did Thomas Edison Follow Failures?

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We are use to failure being a normal a aspect of our everyday lives and we often let it overwhelm us, but we should be aware that how we respond molds us into who we truly are. While it may seem that failures are hindrances and are slowing us down, we need to understand that if we learn from repeated failures that it actually leads us to success. Faint heart never won fair lady.

In particular, Thomas Edison is a man whom I greatly aspire to concerning his repeated failures to create light but how he never gave up and in the end how his failures led him to eternal glory and renown. His great spirit and interest in science led him through 1,000 failed attempts to produce the light bulb but from each scenario he took his failed experiment and applied it to his new one and each one took him a step closer to his dream and never dying remembrance. Interestingly, if Edison had been spared any of his failed experiments he wouldn't have found artificial light since each one his failing was absolutely necessary and helpful for leading him to his goal. Edison's success rated increase dramatically by each gone wrong incident, for each incident taught him what to not do and what to change. People shouldn't see failures as things to be ashamed of but as an opportunity to learn to do things better and learn so much more through the process.

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For two years I searched and experimented in gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipes and while I must have tried over two dozen, I finally found one. It wasn't a pretested recipe but one that I invented from accumulating all my failures and deducting what did and didn't work.My failures gave me the knowledge and skills needed to produce a perfect cookie and know how to solve many other gluten free baking abnormalities. Ironically, all my years of failing actually carved me into one of the greatest bakers of my

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