BE DEAF TO PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE

 A Frog decided to reach the top of a tree. The frogs that saw him climb shouted, “It’s impossible, it’s impossible. You will fall down and break your bones.”  A few said, “What a foolish fellow is he?” Some other frogs hooted at him.  Some scornfully said, “Let us see him succeed in his next to impossible attempt!” Some were not at all bothered and were busy with the mundane matters.

Still that frog reached the top of the tree! 

Why….? He was deaf and did not hear what others said!

When others discouraged him from climbing, he thought: “everyone is encouraging me to climb and reach the top.”

It is a widely circulated story that one day, as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a paper to his mother. He said to her “Mom, my teacher gave this paper to me and told me only you are to read it. What does it say?”

Her eyes welled with tears as she read the letter out loud to her child, “Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.”

Many years after Edison’s mother had died; he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.

One day he was going through a closet and he found the folded letter that his old teacher wrote his mother that day. He opened it.  The message written on the letter was “Your son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school anymore. He is expelled.”

Edison became emotional reading it and then wrote in his diary:

“Thomas A. Edison was a mentally deficient child whose mother turned him into the genius of the Century.”

A positive word of encouragement can help change anyone’s destiny.

As the history tells, Thomas Alva Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history. He amassed a record 1,093 patents covering key innovations and minor improvements in wide range of fields, including telecommunications, electric power, sound recording, motion pictures, primary and storage batteries, and mining and cement technology. As important, he broadened the notion of invention to encompass what we now call innovation-invention, research, development, and commercialization-and invented the industrial research laboratory. Edison's role as an innovator is evident not only in his two major laboratories at Menlo Park and West Orange in New Jersey but in more than 300 companies formed worldwide to manufacture and market his inventions, many of which carried the Edison name, including some 200 Edison illuminating companies.

If Edison’s mother or he succumbed to negative thoughts…!

“BE DEAF TO NEGATIVE THOUGHTS IF YOUR AIM IS TO REACH YOUR GOAL! ALSO, DO NOT BLAME OTHERS FOR YOUR FAILURES!”