… There’re those who initiate something that others dare not initiate, but manage not to finish it. There’re those who pick up to finish something that others have initiated and started. There’re those who don’t start anything or pick upon something started. And there’re the rare ones who initiate and finish what they initiated. Success is correspondingly distributed among these classes in respective degrees. In this regard, Edison is quite on the mark that it is all 99% sweat and that the remainder, a fit of 1%, is all that’s left to genius or talent. Of course, the 1% genius never shows up in the multitude. It’s a rare gift. That’s why it’s genius—a rare if not an accidental twist of genes…
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