Being Hard Working

Famous inventor, Thomas Alva Edison said "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration"

What does this mean?

Personally, I think what Thomas Edison is trying to say is that in order to succeed, one has to work hard and his or her efforts will pay off.

I actually know of someone who came from China in 2002 and was primary 4. When she came to Singapore, she did not even know her ABC's, but when she took her English test, she got a Band 1. Some of you may say that she was lucky or something like that, but the truth of the matter is that her success was the fruits of the hours spent learning and being taught by her mother. Now, she is in RJC year 1. In addition, she is in the best class and is actually one of the best in English in her entire school. From this we can see that actually what Thomas Edison said was 100% correct. However, the thing is that not everyone puts in a 100% effort  (including myself sometimes). People make use of the proverb" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and say that they should totally not do any work and slack. They always think that they can do things at the eleventh hour (like how I am rushing to do 5 blog posts). They think that do the work is a waste of time and playing games is a more meaningful job to spend his time.

If you disagree with what I say, feel free to share your comments.

Bye(off to do my next blog post...)