The greatest fear of the navigator is to lose the direction, if you can not distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, you can not always correct their course. Drifting to Java is a small matter, drifting to the deep sea whirlpool will become a disaster.
The ship's tonnage has the size, the human talent has the high and low. If the tonnage of a ship is used as an analogy for human talent, then a mortal is a small mastless ship and a genius is a seven-masted ship. But whether a ship reaches the other shore or not does not depend on the tonnage alone. A ship that has lost its way in the sea, no matter how large the tonnage and how good the performance, can only become a tragedy on the newspaper headlines. In the life of a genius without a goal, high IQ, learning ability and strong, but also can not change the life forever in the countercurrent.
Many people think that their lack of success is not because they do not work hard, but because they have no talent. So the question is, how much talent is there to make the success thing easy?
Perhaps, you will think like this: if I can know more than three foreign languages, I can get in touch with more cutting-edge information in the world; if I have extraordinary imagination, I can create more new things; if I have an unforgettable memory, I can grasp all kinds of knowledge more quickly.
But even if we have more talent than that, we may not be able to accomplish anything, or even end up with a tragedy at the end of our lives.
Nikola Tesla, 86, was a Serbian-American inventor who was celibate. As a man, he had so many marvelous plus points.
He was 1.88 meters tall, handsome in appearance, proficient in eight languages, could always memorize the entire book he had read, and his imagination and creativity were beyond his time. What is most remarkable is that he can build machines and equipment without having to draw them up. There is no doubt that he was a very rare genius.
Humans once used candles as their primary means of illumination. Nowadays, all kinds of electric lights decorate the city at night. Many people will miss the great American inventor Thomas Edison, and extolled the story of his attempts to try a thousand kinds of light-emitting materials and finally succeeded. However, Edison was not the original inventor of the electric light.
Before that, Nikola Tesla had already created the electric light using an alternating current (AC) power system. But he didn't make a name for himself. Interestingly, he worked under Thomas Edison in his early years. Unfortunately, Edison said in his later years that his biggest mistake was that he never respected Nikola Tesla. The latter was long impoverished when he said this.
Tesla left Edison's company because he was not respected. He had worked for Edison on improving the DC system, and then moved on to the AC system. But his new company struggled to survive.
At the time, people were more familiar with DC systems. The equipment, especially as improved by Tesla, had been an important product for Edison. The incipient AC system was still an untrusted novelty. In fact, DC systems were so cumbersome to deploy that the distance over which power could be transmitted was greatly limited. It was Tesla's invention of the asynchronous generator that ultimately solved the problem of remote power transmission and machines not being able to use AC power. The problem was that in this round of market competition, Tesla's company almost went bankrupt. He had to sell patents on his technology to ease his financial difficulties.
You can hardly imagine how talented Tesla was at inventing.
Guglielmo Marconi, the 1909 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, is best known as the inventor of radio. But few people realize that he adopted 17 of Tesla's patents for his achievements.
Robert Watson Watt invented radar in 1935. In fact, as early as 1917, during World War I, Tesla had proposed the development of radar to the U.S. Navy and developed a workable design. Unfortunately, the leader of the U.S. Navy's research department happened to be Edison, who despised Tesla, which led to the aborted radar program.
Was Wilhelm Roentgen the discoverer of X-rays? Actually, Tesla had been involved in this field for a long time. He believed at the time that X-rays were dangerous and therefore did not advocate putting them into the medical industry before the technology was mature.
The invention of the cell phone and the Internet was at the end of the 20th century. But Tesla in 1926 when he was interviewed by Collier's magazine looked forward to the future of the world will be due to wireless technology aggregated into a brain, even if people are thousands of miles apart can be in the television and telephone with the help of like face-to-face communication, human communication tools can be as small as put into the pocket ...... This all kinds of best wishes, aptly The cell phone and the Internet is characterized.
In addition to this, Tesla has remained a pioneer in many areas.
He built the first hydroelectric power plant on Niagara Falls, proving the reliability of hydroelectric energy. Decades before cryogenic engineering was invented, Tesla was already experimenting with it. He patented the technology that would be used in transistors more than a hundred years before they were officially invented. Tesla was the first to calculate the earth's **** vibration frequency and the first to record radio waves coming from outer space. The application of radio remote control technology is also a gift that Tesla contributed to human civilization.
There is no need to cite more examples of how brilliant the genius inventor Tesla's mind was. It's no exaggeration to say that many of his researches were revolutionary and will live in infamy. But he died alone in a New York hotel at the age of 86, leaving behind a huge debt. The "father of alternating current" refused to sell his patents on alternating current until he died.
Tesla lived on the eve of the third technological revolution. Although he had many forward-looking achievements that opened the doors to new worlds, they did not bring him honor or wealth. What was needed in those days were practical household items like electric lights, TVs, and ovens, not revolutionary inventions of a much higher technological content.
He worked hard to develop all kinds of new patents, and he worked hard to organize companies to promote his achievements. If he had focused on developing and promoting one of the most promising patents that could be marketed, perhaps he could have succeeded with the influence of technical authority. In this way, he would have been able to keep cashing in on his patents, as Edison did, so that he would have more money to invest in new experiments.
Tesla's passion for research was not quenched by a fate that was poor and rocky. But for all intents and purposes, Tesla didn't have a good direction for his life.
Tesla had great talent and many possibilities for success, but he didn't know which direction to go. He pioneered in several fields, but did not move in a clear and consistent direction like inventors such as Marconi and Roentgen. Wanted to promote new inventions, but suffered from poor business practices. Created many inventions, but was slow to market the results of his research before going bankrupt. He planted the tree, and those who came after him picked the fruit. This is a recurring pattern, and it's not so much that Nikola Tesla wasn't smart enough as it is that he lacked a sense of direction.
If the tonnage of a ship is used as an analogy for human talent, Nikola Tesla did not lose to the well-known inventor Thomas Edison, and even in the scientific research talent.
In his later years, Edison arrogantly believed that everything in the world that could be invented had already been invented by himself, while Tesla always maintained the pioneering spirit and curiosity of an inventor. Edison remained more successful than him, while he failed to turn the tide from the beginning and lived his whole life against the tide. The tragedy of Tesla, the genius inventor, is worth waking up to.
In fact, success does not necessarily require outstanding natural talent. Many successful people are moderately qualified. They were able to realize their ambitions partly because of the amazing sweat they put in, and partly because they were able to identify their lifelong goals. A ship without a direction will go against the current any way. If you want to get out of this predicament, you have to check your compass and keep correcting your direction. Only in this way will your efforts not turn into unnecessary struggles.