âHow do I know itâs gonna work?â
Thatâs the question that keeps us from going after what we want.
The only honest answer is that a lot of it wonât. And some of it will fail miserably. So what?
Thomas Edisonâthe man whose name is why youâre thinking of a lightbulb right nowâbelieved that âThe real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into twenty-four hours.â (Hard to argue, considering.)
Most of Edisonâs experiments didnât work. But after achieving breakthroughs, how much time do you think he spent kicking himself for the failed attempts?
Zero minutes.
Every failure was a lesson in what wonât work. Stack up enough of those, and eventually, you have no choice but to find a solutionâitâs just math at that point.
As with lightbulbs, so with life.
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