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Even Intelligent
People Can Fail 1 The striking thing about the innovators who
succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed. Turn on a light,
take a photograph, watch TV, search the Web, jet across the Pacific Ocean; talk
on a cellphone (手机). The innovators who left us these things had to find the way
to success through a maze (错综复杂) of wrong turns. 2 We have just
celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success
in heating a thin line to white-hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey,
US. He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a
thread of common cardboard alight (点亮着的) in an airless space for 45 hours. Three
years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan,
even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned
it on, on September 4, 1882. 3 "Many of life’s failures," the supreme
innovator said, "are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up." Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had
worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light, but in only two
cases did his experiments work. 4 No one likes failure, but the smart
innovators learn from it. Mark Gumz, the head of the camera maker Olympus
America Inc, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to
understanding failure. His popular phrase is: "You only fail when you
quit." 5 Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators
has been persistence. That is another way of saying they had the emotional
ability to keep up what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland,
was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless
in his office because he could not afford the US$1.50 to get his shoes from the
repair shop. Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was
forced out of another before he developed the Model T car. 6 Failure is
harder to bear in today’s open, accelerated world. Hardly any innovation works
the first time. ’But an impatient society and the media want instant success.
When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time, a critic
said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records (Geffen’s company)
and the Titanic (the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music.
Actually, it wasn’t. After four years of losses, Geffen had so many hits (成功的作品)
he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself. Paragraph 4______