Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination. As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These succe...
Declared Tesla as the true father of radio.
York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work,
The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you. But
Seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
One common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.
Asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. Of course it would. The cultural correlation is undeniable: we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more lik...
The seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
Don’t confuse creativity and imagination with thinking either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason t...
Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.
That this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.
To a person with
Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
Marcus Aurelius once said that a person’s life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat.
The announcement generated considerable controversy, and Tesla was widely criticized as a mad scientist whose sanity was slipping. Undaunted, he approached
Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti.
Allis Chalmers, an American manufacturing company, and the railway and lighting division of the Westinghouse Company contracted Tesla to build his flying machine, but the project never began for unkno...
In 1898, Tesla announced his latest invention: a way to remotely control machines with radio technology. Skepticism was widely expressed and quickly diffused thanks to his Madison Square Garden demons...
There are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers—there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don’t. What is generally recognized as great talent is, in...
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