All along, our textbooks have misunderstood Edison's famous saying.

We all thought it was a "genius", that is, 1% inspiration and 99% sweat. Of course, this sentence itself has not been stolen, but the key sentence behind it is omitted from the textbook every time: "But 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than 99% sweat". As you can see, without the last sentence, the meaning of the whole sentence has completely changed. Edison was a genius, of course, and he also believed in genius (he called Ford a "genius" many times); He holds a "conditional recognition" attitude towards genius, that is, genius is the most important, but genius also needs hard work. Edison admitted hard work, but in the final analysis, he paid more attention to inspiration.

Genius is 1% inspiration plus 99% sweat, but that 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than that 99% sweat. Edison

Similar misinformation:

"China is a sleeping lion. Once it wakes up, the whole world will tremble. " -Napoleon

"China is a sleeping lion. Once it wakes up, the whole world will tremble. " Everyone knows that this is a sentence that Napoleon said. We accept this sentence because a great foreigner has such a lofty evaluation of China. As a China people, we are deeply proud. We are convinced that this sleeping lion has woken up, which makes the world feel the tremor it brings, because the people of China stand up, which surprises the world.

But for a long time, we didn't know that there was another sentence in the middle of this sentence: "It is sleeping, thank God, let it sleep."