The tonnage of ships is different, so is the talent of people. If the tonnage of a ship is used to compare people's talent, then ordinary people are boats without masts, and genius is a seven-masted ship. But whether a ship can reach the other shore depends not only on tonnage. A ship lost in the sea, no matter how big its tonnage and good its performance, can only be a tragedy in the headlines. A genius who has no goal in life, no matter how high his IQ is or how strong his learning ability is, can't change his life that is always in a countercurrent.
Many people think that they are not successful because they don't work hard, but because they have no talent. Then the question is, how much talent can make success easy?
Perhaps, you will think: if I can speak more than three foreign languages, I can get in touch with more cutting-edge information in the world; If you have extraordinary imagination, you can create more new things; If you have an unforgettable memory, you can master all kinds of knowledge more quickly.
However, even if we have more outstanding talents than this, we may not be able to achieve something, or even end up in tragedy at the end of our lives.
Nikola tesla was an American Serbian inventor at the age of 86. He has been single all his life. As a man, he has too many amazing points.
He is 1.88 meters tall, handsome and proficient in eight languages, and can recite the whole book he has read at any time. His imagination and creativity are beyond the times. The most amazing thing is that he can directly build the machines and equipment he conceived without drawing them into drawings. There is no doubt that he is a very rare genius.
Humans once used candles as the main lighting tools. Nowadays, all kinds of electric lights decorate the city at night. Many people will miss Edison, the great American inventor, and tell the story that he finally tried 1000 luminescent materials successfully. However, the original inventor of electric light was not Edison.
Prior to this, nikola tesla had already made electric lamps with AC power generation system. But he didn't become famous. Interestingly, he worked under Edison in his early years. Unfortunately, Edison said in his later years that his biggest mistake was that he never respected nikola tesla. When he said this, the latter was already down and out.
Tesla left Edison's company because he was not respected. He once improved the DC system for Edison, and later turned to the study of AC system. But his new company is very difficult to survive.
At that time, people were more familiar with DC system. In particular, Tesla's improved equipment has always been an important product of Edison. The budding AC system is still a new thing that is not trusted by people. In fact, the deployment of DC system is very troublesome, and the distance of power transmission is greatly limited. It was Tesla who invented the asynchronous generator, which finally solved the problems of long-distance transmission and the inability of machines to use alternating current. The problem is that in this round of market competition, Tesla's company almost went bankrupt. He had to sell technical patents to ease his financial difficulties.
It's hard to imagine how talented Tesla is in invention and creation.
Guillermo Marconi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics from 65438 to 0909, is famous for inventing radio. But few people know that his achievements have adopted Tesla's 17 patents.
Robert Watson Watt invented radar in 1935. In fact, as early as 19 17, during the First World War, Tesla had put forward a proposal to the US Navy to develop radar and made a feasible design scheme. Unfortunately, the leader of the US Navy's research department looked down on Tesla's Edison, which led to the abortion of the radar plan.
Is wilhelm rontgen the discoverer of X-rays? In fact, Tesla has already set foot in this field. At that time, he thought X-ray was dangerous, so he did not advocate entering the medical industry before the technology was mature.
The invention of mobile phones and the Internet appeared at the end of the 20th century. However, when Tesla was interviewed by Collier magazine at 1926, he predicted that the future world would converge into a brain due to wireless technology. Even though people are thousands of miles apart, they can communicate face to face by means of TV and telephone. Human communication tools can be small enough to put in your pocket ... This imagination just describes the characteristics of mobile phones and the Internet.
In addition, Tesla is still a pioneer in many fields.
He built the first hydropower station on Niagara Falls, which proved the reliability of hydropower energy. Tesla had been experimenting for decades before people invented cryogenic engineering. More than a hundred years before the formal invention of the transistor, he invented the technical patent of the transistor. Tesla was the first to calculate the vibration frequency of the earth, and the first to record the radio waves from outer space. The application of radio remote control technology is also a gift from Tesla to human civilization.
There is no need to give more examples of how smart the genius inventor Tesla is. It is no exaggeration to say that many of his studies are famous revolutionary achievements in history. But he eventually died alone in the new york Hotel at the age of 86, leaving a large debt. The "father of alternating current" refused to sell his patent for alternating current until his death.
Tesla lived on the eve of the third scientific and technological revolution. Although he has many forward-looking achievements and opened many doors to the new world, it has not brought him honor and wealth. What was needed at that time was practical daily necessities such as electric lights, televisions and ovens, rather than revolutionary inventions with higher scientific and technological content.
He worked hard to develop all kinds of new patents and set up a company to promote his achievements. If he can concentrate on developing and popularizing a most promising patent, maybe he can succeed with the influence of technical authority. In this way, he can continue to realize the patent like Edison and let himself have more money to invest in new experiments.
The fate of poverty and twists and turns did not extinguish Tesla's research enthusiasm. But in fact, Tesla did not set a good direction for his life.
There are outstanding talents, many possibilities for success, but I don't know which direction to go. He pioneered in many fields, but unlike Marconi, Roentgen and other inventors, he has been moving in a clear direction. I want to promote new inventions, but I am trapped in poor management. Many inventions were created, but it was too late to bring the research results to market before bankruptcy. He planted trees, and later people picked fruits. This kind of drama is repeated not so much because nikola tesla is not smart enough, but because he lacks a sense of direction.
If the tonnage of a ship is used to compare people's talent, nikola tesla is no less than Edison, an inventor known to all women and children, and even more so in scientific research talent.
In his later years, Edison arrogantly thought that everything that can be invented in the world was created by himself, while Tesla has always maintained the pioneering spirit and curiosity of inventors. Edison was still more successful than him, but he never made a comeback and lived in the countercurrent all his life. The tragedy of the genius inventor Tesla deserves our vigilance.
In fact, success doesn't have to be gifted. Many successful people have medium qualifications. They can realize their ambitions, on the one hand, because of their amazing sweat, on the other hand, because they can determine their lifelong goals. A ship without direction will fall into countercurrent no matter how it goes. If you want to get rid of the predicament, you have to constantly correct the direction of progress against the compass. Only in this way will your efforts not become meaningless struggles.