KEEP GOING

 

Keep Going

While perfecting the phonograph (gramophone), one of his many inventions, Thomas Alva Edison, encountered the problem of eliminating muffled low noise and harsh high tones on it. 

He entrusted this to an assistant to look into.After unsuccessfully working at it for two years, the assistant told him, “I have spent thousands of your dollars, and two years of my life on this. But I have achieved nothing. If there was a solution to this problem, I would by now have found it out. I therefore wish to resign.”

To this, Edison thoughtfully replied, “George, I believe that for every problem God has given us, He has also provided a solution. We may not necessarily find it; but some day someone will. So go back and keep trying at it.”

Society today is so obsessed with success and achievement, that failure cannot be tolerated in the process.

Failures and mistakes are hidden away, and they are regarded as a weakness.

However, faults and defeats are inevitable in life.

We must learn from them.

If we strive to do everything exceedingly right, and get too obsessed with perfection, then experiencing a successful and happy life would be impossible.

Embrace your failures in good spirit, whether they be a single one or multiple ones. A willingness to learn from your mistakes, can guarantee a lifetime of success.

Perfection may not be possible on earth.

Please treat adversities as opportunities.

Bruce Lee, the legendary Kung-Fu King, once said, “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”