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In this article, we'll examine resilience: what it is, why we need it, and how to develop it so that we have the strength and fortitude to overcome adversity, and to keep on moving forward towards our dreams and our goals. His inspiring story forces us to look at our own lives – do we have the resilience that we need to overcome our challenges? Or do we let our failures derail our dreams? And what could we accomplish if we had the strength not to give up? It's hard to imagine what our world would be like if Edison had given up after his first few failures. His resilience gave the world some of the most amazing inventions of the early 20th century, such as the phonograph, the telegraph, and the motion picture. All of these 'failures,' which are reported to be in the tens of thousands, simply showed him how not to invent something. In spite of struggling with 'failure' throughout his entire working life, Edison never let it get the best of him. And, since the prolific inventor was awarded more than 1,000 patents, it's easy to imagine him failing on a daily basis in his lab at Menlo Park. – American inventor, Thomas EdisonĪccording to legend, Thomas Edison made thousands of prototypes of the incandescent light bulb before he finally got it right. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.