There is another sentence after this sentence,

The corrupt textbook omitted the latter sentence...

The original sentence is: "Genius is a hundred Ninety-nine percent of sweat plus one percent of inspiration, but sometimes the one percent of inspiration is more important than the ninety-nine percent of sweat."

It means "thinking" To succeed, you have to work hard. Without hard work, even a genius cannot succeed."

Anyone who pays attention to observation and perseverance will unknowingly become a genius - (Bulwer Lytton) Genius is nothing else but hard work and diligence (Will Hogarth ) A character with genius never follows the path of ordinary people's thoughts - (Stendhal) Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - (Edison) Genius is nothing but The crystallization of blood and sweat (Arab) I don’t have any special talents, but I like to pursue problems in depth - (Einstein) Through the thoughts of these "geniuses", we may be able to understand what genius is...

Success = 99% sweat (effort) + 1% inspiration (opportunity or luck)

Sweat and inspiration are both indispensable. When you make efforts like this : Keep learning and learning and learning (the so-called 99% part); when the opportunity comes and you seize it just right, that is, if you have the other 1%, then you will succeed.

In other words, you have put in 1% of inspiration that may succeed but may not succeed because there is another necessary condition for success. But if you don’t put in effort, you will definitely not succeed because you only have 1% of inspiration that may not even succeed. %, you are missing the other 99%.

In fact, Edison’s original meaning has been misinterpreted by us. The real full text is “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. However, this one percent inspiration is It is crucial! Sometimes it is more important than the 99% of sweat!

It is not difficult to see from this that Edison emphasizes the 1% of inspiration. This is crucial for an inventor. It's just that our educators have modified the famous saying without authorization to achieve certain purposes.

The entire content of this famous saying is:

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. But the one percent inspiration is the most important, even more important than the ninety-nine percent perspiration. < /p>

--Edison

Of course, this sentence itself has not been changed, but the key sentence behind it is missed every time: "But the 1% of inspiration is the most important thing." What is important is even more important than 99% of sweat." As you can see, without the following sentence, the meaning of the whole sentence has completely changed. Of course Edison was a genius, and he also believed in genius. An attitude of "conditional recognition", that is, genius is the most important, but genius also requires effort. Edison admitted that effort was the most important, but in the final analysis, he only valued inspiration. This is tantamount to completely denying the meaning of inspiration. /p>