How Close to Success
A graph of Edison's light bulb attempts: thousands of failures, then a sudden jump to success, with his quote about giving up too soon.
Transcript
[Graph: Times That Humans Have Harnessed Electricity for Light vs. Attempted Light Bulb Designs (2,893 to 2,898), with a sudden jump] "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close to success they were when they gave up." –Thomas Edison
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-18-how-close-to-success/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)