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Fail 1 The striking thing about the
innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed.
Turn oil a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the
Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell phone (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
turn. 2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of
American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating in 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) he could afford a ship
as big as the Titanic all to himself. A．Importance of Learning from
Failure B．Quality Shared by Most Innovators C．Edison’s
Innovation D．Edison’s Comment on Failure E. Contributions Made by
Innovators F. Miseries Endured by Innovators Paragraph 3 ______