Success Possible Despite Several Failures – Thomas Edison As Example

Do you know that success is still possible in your life, irrespective of the several failures that you may have experienced?

At least, Thomas Edison is our example.

His is one story that you would never get tired of hearing if you desire success, and good one at that.

This man, who later turned out to become this and that, had had a challenging start, in fact, many shortcomings for which people could be written off.

Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, the youngest of seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison, his father was an exiled political activist from Canada, though his mother was a school teacher.

At an early age, Thomas had bouts of near tragedies, including a scarlet fever as well as ear infections that left him with hearing difficulties in both ears. The hearing defect was an after effect of a train accident

Thomas Edison’s forehead was unusually broad, and his head was considerably larger than average.

He once narrowly escaped from drowning in the barge canal that ran alongside his home.

Edison did not learn to talk until he was almost four years old.

Rather than improve as he grew older, his hearing challenge worsened, and he nearly grew to a deaf adult.

In 1954, at the age of seven, Edison attended school for a short period of 12 weeks. Being a hyperactive child and prone to distraction, Edison’s teachers could not handle him. His mother removed him from school and tutored him at home until the age of 11. Thus, Edison had very little formal education as a child.

In 1854, the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where Thomas had to be enrolled in a public school for a total of 12 weeks, but later pulled from home to be taight by his mother.

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At age 12, Edison became a newspaper vendor along the Grand Trunk Railroad line.

Edison later moved from vending newspapers to publishing his own small publication which he named the Grand Trunk Herald. 

Edison married his first wife, 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, in 1871 the marriage lasting 13-years and producing three children, Marion, Thomas and William. 

In 1884, Mary died at the age of 29 of a suspected brain tumor. Two years later, Edison married Mina Miller, 19 years his junior.

Experienced the biggest failure of a lifetime when he lost millions of dollars while experimenting to invent a method of separating ore from rock. He is the inventor of the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb, and was reputed with a leading role in the famed in building the American economy during the Industrial Revolution.

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Thomas Edison was later to be the inventor of several things that have since helped in transforming and making our world better.

Thus, the same man who had a challenging childhood, later became the answer that the world needed on several fronts. The following are examples.

The invention of the world’s first industrial research laboratory. –invention of the world’s first practical incandescent light, and this took him one and a half years