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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World

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Edison's Discipline

Edison had a singular focus he found what he loved and he decided to dedicate his life to it. Edison was disinclined to drink with with his fellows because it would pull him off track interfering with his greatest greatest pleasures tinkering learning and problem-solving those may be maybe my greatest pleasures to tinkering learning and solving problems. His outlook was secular and matter of fact he once got in trouble when he sacrilegiously transcribed J.C. whenever Jesus Christ came across the wire.

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