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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 on 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 (成功的作品) he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all
to himself.
A. Importance of Learning from Failure B.
Quality Shared by Most Innovator C. Edison’s
Innovation D. Edison’s Comment on Failure E.
Contributions Made by Innovators F. Miseries Endured by
Innovators Paragraph 2 ______.