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Even Intelligent People Can Fail
' O$ Y* h$ x% C, h0 V6 Z1 j" @& P 1 The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how
: H8 Y5 T. f" j6 j7 C$ G0 r often they failed.Turn oil a light,take a photograph,watch TV,search the web,jet across the
! L' Q. T4 I, |- F Pacific Ocean.talk on a cellphone(手机).The innovators who left us these things had to find the
1 g' `, i& }5 a" b# Z way to success through a maze(错综复杂)of wrong turns.7 j3 E+ b/ [& N% b& x' g
2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s
$ s0 _$ D# Z; b3 S1 h. K* I success in heating n thin line to white,hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey,US.He did
- D5 }1 c' \+ Q: q, M that on October 22.1879.and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common
4 z6 S* m& I5 P cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours.Three years later he went on to light" H2 x5 u! l* O
up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan,even though only one of the six power plants in
4 R; q5 b$ [/ A2 L his design worked when he turned it on,on September 4,1882.
4 v5 n$ W' e; M* E2 u 3 “Many of 1ife’S failures”the supreme innovator said.“are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”Before that magical moment in October 1879./ l2 u U; m( h5 T
Edison had worked out no fewer than 3.000 theories about electric light.But in only two cases did9 T. U: {8 i& z) ?+ v P
his experiments work.
2 e, v8 G. j* ?' O# T 4 N0 one likes failure,but the smart innovators learn from it.Mark Gumz.the head of the
, J; Z1 v* l; e% B3 l+ Z' v0 b camera maker Olympus America Inc.attributes some of the company’S successes in technology
5 s0 Q/ t4 z+ v1 W" H7 U& T* s& a to understanding failure.His popular phrase is:“You only fail when you quit”
7 W0 ]( U: j: L5 f. ]" {# h 5 0ver two centuries,the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence That is
/ G) w7 ?; l$ l1 C$ V another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep up what they were doing.Walt
7 u: C1 F7 I8 k3 @$ { Disney,the founder of Disneyland,was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he
4 M6 \% t- @' @& ?4 Z was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1.50 to get his shoes from the
# V+ L( ~7 g! n repair shop.Pioneering Car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of
8 n7 c' ^6 U0 F- F+ h another before he developed the Model T Car.0 W0 K5 ]9 s/ ~ g* B
6 Failure is harder to bear in today’s open,accelerated world.Hardly any innovation works# Y# c3 W# @" x: F
the first time But an impatient society and the media want instant success When American' P% E' `- g$ }% t' a) I# E' W9 z
music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time,a critic said nastily that the only
1 k( A- J# J3 a! I4 j difference between Geffen Records (Geffen’s company)and the Titanic(the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music.Actually,it wasn’t.After four years of 10sses.Geffen had so many hits(成功的作品)he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself. |