Genius is 99% perspiration+1% inspiration.
(Note: Without the second sentence "But without 1% inspiration, 99% of the sweat will be in vain")
The article about Edison published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932) can be said to be the first time Edison said that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent inspiration.
It is generally believed that this sentence was taken from a press conference of 1929. At the press conference, Edison said that none of my inventions were accidental. I see a valuable thing that needs to be satisfied, and then I try until it comes. It boils down to. One percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent inspiration. It is about diligence.
On another occasion, his version was: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent inspiration. Therefore,' genius' is usually just a talented person who has done all the housework. Or the role of diligence.
Edison himself didn't say the second part, "but without this 1% inspiration, 99% of the sweat was in vain."
Without that one percent inspiration, all the inspiration in the world is just a bucket of sweat. It was the writer Cindy Myers' admiration for Edison, not what Edison said, and then he estimated some minor translation mistakes.
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