Who Castrated Edison?

Once upon a time, "man is determined to conquer heaven" has become our consensus. Only unexpected things can not be done.

As long as we are willing to work hard, nothing can be done in the world.

In textbooks, articles embodying this idea can be found everywhere.

In inspirational books, the list of examples that can be successful through hard work is beyond description.

Many famous aphorisms also illustrate this problem.

As Edison said, "genius, that is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration", is the saying that "as long as we work hard, nothing can be done in the world".

However, some of the times we have castrated the words of celebrities, distorting the meaning of what they want to say, and giving evidence to the "hard work of the day".

Just like this sentence often appears on campus and classroom, it is cruelly castrated.

Of course, this sentence itself has not been replaced by a fraud, but every time it appears, it is left behind the key phrase: "but the 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than the sweat of 99%."

I believe every reader will be dumbfounded after reading it, because this is exactly the opposite of what it meant.

Edison, of course, is a genius. He also believes in genius. (he once called Ford "genius").

He has a conditional acknowledgement of genius, that is, genius is the most important, but genius also needs hard work. So to speak, this sentence is more convincing than genius by Edison.

Edison admits hard work, but in the end he takes inspiration more seriously.

And all the words that appear in China are always in the front part, which is a total negation of the meaning of inspiration.

Why does this sentence suffer from castration?

Whether or not it contradict our traditional educational concept of "learning from endless difficulties to make boats" and "having a path for diligence" is deleted.

But this kind of fundamental negation of the innate importance of human beings is absolutely absurd.

The author does not deny the importance of hard work after tomorrow because it is right to work hard the day after tomorrow.

But the problem is that our approach is not necessarily scientific.

Just like a man who can't even sing five tones, he learns music well, but it is very difficult to achieve success in music, and he may have to learn for an hour in a half month, so that even if he learns, how many months and a month does life have?

That is to say, we should not unilaterally emphasize and exaggerate the role of the postnatal efforts. We must strive to develop the following day on the basis of recognizing the importance of talent. That is the way of science.

Therefore, what we should do is to spend the limited time in the most needed place and the most worthwhile place.

Because we need too much time and time to spend time, or we can achieve more outstanding achievements in our limited life. In other words, in order to better realize the value of our life.