Dr. Steven Campbell recently had this little piece in one
of his newsletters. Most people could likely apply this in some way to his or
life. The story is as follows.
A little boy came home one day from school and gave a
paper to his mother. “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only
give it to my mother.” His mother’s eyes teared up as she read the letter to
her child: "Your son is a genius.
This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers for
training him. Please teach him yourself." Many years after his mother had died and this little boy
had grown, he was looking through old family things in her desk. When he saw a
folded paper in the corner of a drawer, it read, “Your son is addled. We won’t
let him come to school anymore.” That little boy was Thomas Edison, the genius
of the 20th Century. He had always been so, but his genius came to
the world because of one person—his mother—who believed in him enough to teach
him how to believe in himself. Years later, when a reporter from the New York
Times asked Edison how it felt to fail 999 times as he looked for the filament
of a light bulb, he answered, “I did not fail
999 times! I simply found 999 ways that did not work!”
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