Edison only attended primary school for three months in his life, and his knowledge came from his mother's teaching and self-study. His success should be attributed to his mother's understanding and patient teaching since childhood, which made Edison, who was originally considered an imbecile, become a world-famous "king of invention" when he grew up.

Edison was curious about many things since he was a child, and he liked to try it himself until he understood the truth. When he grew up, he devoted himself to research and invention according to his interest in this field. He established a laboratory in New Jersey, and invented the electric light, telegraph, phonograph, film machine, magnetic mineral analyzer, crusher and so on for more than 2000 kinds of things in his life. Edison's strong research spirit made him make great contributions to the improvement of human lifestyle.

"Waste, the biggest waste is wasting time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is short, so we should try to do more with less time."

One day, Edison was working in the laboratory. He handed his assistant an empty glass bulb without a lampholder and said, "Measure the capacity of the bulb." He bowed his head to work again.

After a long time, he asked, "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer, turned to see the assistant measuring the circumference and inclination of the light bulb with a soft ruler, and poured the measured figures on the table for calculation. He said, "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water into the measuring cup and tell me its capacity at once."

The assistant read out the numbers at once.

Edison said, "How easy it is to measure. It is both accurate and time-saving. Why didn't you think of that? " ? Still counting. Isn't that a waste of time? "

The assistant's face turned red.

Edison murmured, "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more! " "

Counting all the people who have made great achievements in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, all cherish time like gold. There is a saying in the ancient book Huai Nan Zi: "The sage does not value the jade of the ruler, but the yin of the inch." There is such a poem in "Long Songs of Han Yuefu": "When will all rivers return to the sea in the east and return to the west?" "Young people will be sad if they don't work hard." Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty also wrote a poem about cherishing time: "It is difficult to get up in the morning when you are in the prime of your life. It is necessary to encourage in time, and time waits for no one. " At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhenbai's poem "White Deer Cave" had a wonderful metaphor of "an inch of time and an inch of gold". The French writer Balzac compared time to capital. Goethe, a German poet, regarded time as his own property. Mr. Lu Xun has a deeper understanding of time. He said, "Time is life. Wasting other people's time for no reason is actually tantamount to killing people for money. " After Faraday's middle age, in order to save time, he devoted himself to scientific creation, strictly controlled himself, refused to participate in all activities unrelated to science, and even resigned as the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Madame Curie never put a chair in the reception room in order not to delay her visit. 76-year-old Einstein was ill, and an old friend asked him what he wanted to do. He said, I just wish I had a few hours to sort out some manuscripts.

Most contemporary teenagers envy the affluent life in America and Japan and their cars and appliances. However, do you know how much they cherish time? As early as more than 200 years ago, when the United States was not independent, Franklin, one of the pioneers, scientists, industrialists and leaders of the American independence movement, included two proverbs that were widely circulated in the United States and became an instant hit in his book road to riches: "Time is life" and "Time is money". In the early 1990s, a youth delegation from China and Liaoning attended a meeting in Japan. Before going abroad, the head of the delegation prepared a thick stack of speeches, but the meeting schedule handed over by Japanese officials at that time read: "Chinese speaking time: 10: 17: 20 to 18: 20." The speaking time is only one minute. This seems incredible to people who read newspapers for half a day with a cup of tea and a cigarette, but it is very common in Japan. From workers to scholars, Japan has a strong sense of time. Their basic criterion for assessing workers' incompetence is the amount of labor per unit time on the premise of ensuring quality, and the time is generally accurate to the second.

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Edison only attended primary school for three months in his life, and his knowledge came from his mother's teaching and self-study. His success should be attributed to his mother's understanding and patient teaching since childhood, which made Edison, who was originally considered an imbecile, become a world-famous "king of invention" when he grew up.

Edison was curious about many things since he was a child, and he liked to try it himself until he understood the truth. When he grew up, he devoted himself to research and invention according to his interest in this field. He established a laboratory in New Jersey, and invented the electric light, telegraph, phonograph, film machine, magnetic mineral analyzer, crusher and so on for more than 2000 kinds of things in his life. Edison's strong research spirit made him make great contributions to the improvement of human lifestyle.

"Waste, the biggest waste is wasting time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is short, so we should try to do more with less time."

One day, Edison was working in the laboratory. He handed his assistant an empty glass bulb without a lampholder and said, "Measure the capacity of the bulb." He bowed his head to work again.

After a long time, he asked, "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer, turned to see the assistant measuring the circumference and inclination of the light bulb with a soft ruler, and poured the measured figures on the table for calculation. He said, "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water into the measuring cup and tell me its capacity at once."

The assistant read out the numbers at once.

Edison said, "How easy it is to measure. It is both accurate and time-saving. Why didn't you think of that? " ? Still counting. Isn't that a waste of time? "

The assistant's face turned red.

Edison murmured, "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more! " "

Counting all the people who have made great achievements in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, all cherish time like gold. There is a saying in the ancient book Huai Nan Zi: "The sage does not value the jade of the ruler, but the yin of the inch." There is such a poem in "Long Songs of Han Yuefu": "When will all rivers return to the sea in the east and return to the west?" "Young people will be sad if they don't work hard." Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty also wrote a poem about cherishing time: "It is difficult to get up in the morning when you are in the prime of your life. It is necessary to encourage in time, and time waits for no one. " At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhenbai's poem "White Deer Cave" had a wonderful metaphor of "an inch of time and an inch of gold". The French writer Balzac compared time to capital. Goethe, a German poet, regarded time as his own property. Mr. Lu Xun has a deeper understanding of time. He said, "Time is life. Wasting other people's time for no reason is actually tantamount to killing people for money. " After Faraday's middle age, in order to save time, he devoted himself to scientific creation, strictly controlled himself, refused to participate in all activities unrelated to science, and even resigned as the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Madame Curie never put a chair in the reception room in order not to delay her visit. 76-year-old Einstein was ill, and an old friend asked him what he wanted to do. He said, I just wish I had a few hours to sort out some manuscripts.

Most contemporary teenagers envy the affluent life in America and Japan and their cars and appliances. However, do you know how much they cherish time? As early as more than 200 years ago, when the United States was not independent, Franklin, one of the pioneers, scientists, industrialists and leaders of the American independence movement, included two proverbs that were widely circulated in the United States and became an instant hit in his book road to riches: "Time is life" and "Time is money". In the early 1990s, a youth delegation from China and Liaoning attended a meeting in Japan. Before going abroad, the head of the delegation prepared a thick stack of speeches, but the meeting schedule handed over by Japanese officials at that time read: "Chinese speaking time: 10: 17: 20 to 18: 20." The speaking time is only one minute. This seems incredible to people who read newspapers for half a day with a cup of tea and a cigarette, but it is very common in Japan. From workers to scholars, Japan has a strong sense of time. Their basic criterion for assessing workers' incompetence is the amount of labor per unit time on the premise of ensuring quality, and the time is generally accurate to the second.