Determination. What does that word mean to you? To me it is part decision, part discipline and part orneriness because you have to have decided what it is that you want, you have to take the actions that will make it happen and you have to be stubborn enough to never give up even when faced with apparent failure.
Thomas Edison tried thousands of times to invent a working incandecent light bulb before he finally succeeded. Henry Ford went bankrupt several times before he became wealthy. these are but two examples of many people who have wanted something and been unwilling to give up until they got it.
I believe that Edison said it best when asked about all his previous failures to invent the incandecent bulb; “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
So what could you achieve in life if you had a dream and you never saw failure in anything? What could you do if you were determined?
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