Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11th, 1847, and died on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. Edison was one the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. His mother was a school teacher and his father ran grocery stores. Edison was a extremely curious child who asked lots of questions. He had a large loving family which consisted of 3 brothers and two sisters.
When Edison turned seven, his family moved to Port Haron, Michigan. This is where Edison began School. After 3 months of going to primary school, Edison’s teacher consider him as a dull student who is too stupid to learn. Edison’s mom pulled him out of primary school and taught him herself. His parents did not force him to learn things that he did not enjoy. They encouraged him to learn on his own. They were dedicated to teaching him. They wanted him to learn around things that
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All of these "failures," which are in the tens of thousands, simply showed him how not to invent something. His resilience gave the world a couple of the most amazing inventions of the early 20th century, such as the light bulb, the telegraph, and the motion picture.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” The failures in life, become stepping stones to later success. In the case of Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, which supposedly took Edison 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” a journalist asked. “I didn’t fail 1,000 times,” Edison responded. “The lightbulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”
Resilience is our ability to adapt then bounce back when things don't go as planned. Resilient people don't focus on failures, they acknowledge the situation, then learn from their mistakes, and then move forward. Three things which Thomas Edison used to move forward after failure