Long story short, he tried 6,000 different filaments to try to get the lightbulb to work. We may think he’s a genius in retrospect. But no, he was just persistent.

Persistent. 

6,000 filaments.

If he tried 5x a day. ​That’s 3.2 years of “failing” every day. 1200 days of your life with nothing. Flick switch and NOTHING. He’d tell you he found 5,999 ways not to create lightbulb. Behind the greatest minds are not genius but persistency.

​Now do you realise how annoying it is that you cannot be annoyed if your diet or weight didn’t yield amazing results after 2 weeks? That you got overwhelmed with the fact something didn’t go right? The fact that this is “a bit new to you.” Your task is not as big as you make it out to be.

Even if your efforts are wrong at first they’ll still yield SLOW results rather than Edison’s bulbs that remained dark.

Every corner you turn that doesn’t work is not a failed attempt but one more addition to the “ways not to do it” list.

In fact, I’m going to post this on our online groups of all the genius’ and celebrities who have FAILED and FAILED yet because they were persistent they reached their goals.

Without this way of thinking we’d be sat in the dark right now.