Final topic 5M
Inovations make our life better. But who are inovators and how have they reached their goals? I'd like to tell you a few stories of 2 ordinary people who are rocking the world with their bright ideas.
Dereck Kayongo was very shocked to be told that guests were given new soap every day while 2 million young children were dying every year through lack of hygiene in the developing world, and this got him thinking. So, in 2009, Dereck started asking hotels if they could donate their used bars of soap that would be otherwise put in the bin. So far, Dereck's "Global Soap Project" has provided more than 100.000 bars of soap to 9 countries absolutely free.
The second story is about the one of the most famous inventors - Thomas Edison.
Most people immediately think of the light bulb when they think of Thomas Edison. On the other hand, by the end of his life he held 1093 patents and he was responsible for more inventions than any other inventor in history!
Undoubtedly, he was a very clever person. But would you believe that as a child his teacher told his mother that he was too slow to learn? Later on, many of his inventions failed but he didn't give up.So what are his secrets?
Perhaps Edison's greatest strength was that he absolutely refused to give up. Edison was also very intolerant of laziness and believed in pushing himself to reach his goals.
All in all, greatest inovators are the people who saw the problem and fixed it by their own minds. They are the people who really improved our life quality, who knew how to use their own mistakes to their advantage.
Dereck Kayongo was very shocked to be told that guests were given new soap every day while 2 million young children were dying every year through lack of hygiene in the developing world, and this got him thinking. So, in 2009, Dereck started asking hotels if they could donate their used bars of soap that would be otherwise put in the bin. So far, Dereck's "Global Soap Project" has provided more than 100.000 bars of soap to 9 countries absolutely free.
The second story is about the one of the most famous inventors - Thomas Edison.
Most people immediately think of the light bulb when they think of Thomas Edison. On the other hand, by the end of his life he held 1093 patents and he was responsible for more inventions than any other inventor in history!
Undoubtedly, he was a very clever person. But would you believe that as a child his teacher told his mother that he was too slow to learn? Later on, many of his inventions failed but he didn't give up.So what are his secrets?
Perhaps Edison's greatest strength was that he absolutely refused to give up. Edison was also very intolerant of laziness and believed in pushing himself to reach his goals.
All in all, greatest inovators are the people who saw the problem and fixed it by their own minds. They are the people who really improved our life quality, who knew how to use their own mistakes to their advantage.
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