Its Never Too Late for Success,What is success?,lets talk about Edison,In his childhood.he ask a lot of questions! such as, why the hen stay in the coop for a long time.it is for the chicken. And his mother has to teatch him in the home after all teacher dont like him.,When he grow up, he changes jobs a lot ! until 21 years he came to New York, to known by mechanical, and excellent maintenance technology , slowly rushes out the fame, set up his own engineering company,step by step to success,-1876 build his first industrial research lab -1877 inwent the recorder -1878 Invention of the electric light began -1880 New York Edison electric lighting company was established -1889 motion-picture machine came to the world -.,Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (19451953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelts third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States (1945), he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term.,Pearl Sidestroker Buck (June 26, 1892 March 6, 1973) also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an award-winning American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.,Pasture, Edison, Darwin and lots of more were far from being geniuses in their teens. History books seldom mention it, but the truth is that many of our greatest figures were practically “beatniks” when they were teenagers. They were given to daydreaming, indecision, and they showed no promise of being doctor, lawyer.,If you take piano lessons and your attitude towards practicing is marked by laziness, your parents might justly complain and flaunt before you the famous picture of little Mozart in his ruffled nightshirt, playing the piano at midnight in the attic. But the point is, your parents would not show you a picture of a certain party who never showed a bit of interest in music during his formative years. In fact he never showed talent in any direction whatever. Finally put to studying law, he barely passed his final exams. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music, and his name was Peter Iluitch Tschaikowsky.,So it goes. You have the Wright brothers, who were brilliant at engineering in their early teens, and you have Thomas Alva Edison, whose teacher tried to get him out of the class because his brain was “addled.”,You have the Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi, who at 17 had read enough mathematics to qualify for a doctors degree. And you have the great. Albert Schweitzer, who hesitated between music and the church until he was 30. Ten he started his medical studies.,Charles Darwins early life was a mess. He hated school, and his father once shouted: “You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family!” He was sent to Glasgow to study medicine, but he couldnt stand the sight of blood. He was sent to divinity school and barely managed to graduate. Whereupon he gave up the whole business and shipped to the South Seas on the famous exploring ship Beagle. On that voyage, one of historys greatest scientists was born. It was here that he collected the material for the book that would revolutionize biological science The Origin of the Species.,Darwin Hated School,How about Those Prodigies?,And added to all the aforementioned paradoxes you have a small army of child prodigies who were graduated from college when they were 15, and are now obscure clerks in accounting departments. And you have a small army of men who were too stupid or lazy to get into or finish college and who are today presidents of the firms that hire the prodigies.,What about you ?,So whos to say what about youth? Any young boy or girl who knows what he wants to do in life is probably the better off for it. But no teen-ager need despair of the future. He has that one special advantage over the greatest man alive time! If you dont think time counts, look at Grandma Moses. She never sold a painting till she was 80.,The End,Thank You,