Times Of Swaziland: LEARNING BY TRIAL AND ERROR

LEARNING BY TRIAL AND ERROR
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Editor on 05/12/2022 06:53:00


Sir,
Thomas Alva Edison began his career as a news butcher, selling newspapers, candy
and vegetables on the trains, yet he became one of the greatest inventors and
businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power
generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These
inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early
versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern
industrialised world.
Inventors
He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organised science
and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and
employees. Edison developed hearing problems at the age of 12. However, As he
got older, Edison believed his hearing loss allowed him to avoid distraction and
concentrate more easily on his work. His approach to invention was characterised
by trial and error discovery rather than a systematic theoretical approach and
it was through trial and error that Edison developed a practical incandescent
light bulb. People learn by doing and accordingly, learn considerably more from
their mistakes than their success. In a similar way, we are more like Edison in
our way. Whenever we learn a skill, be it riding a bike or cooking pastry, we
learn from our mistakes.
Haunted
As future leaders of this very same country, we tend to be haunted by our gross
past which in the process destroys our entire lives. I want to believe we get
daily inspiration and motivation which helps us to transform into the better but
the question is how can we be able to change when there is no chance granted to
us?
Our kingdom is filled with a lot of foreigners who grab opportunities from the
young just for their own success. These foreigners should be repatriated in
order for young emaSwati to get enough space to expand their skills freely
without doubts. The less we allow ourselves to be touched by life’s full array
of experiences, the less life reaches out to touch us with the depth of its
meaning. I really hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that
the less we use our power the greater it will be. Opportunities multiply as they
are seized, but how can we be able to use those chances if there is no one elder
out there who is willing to untie us from the destitute world. So let us go out
there and create these opportunities in order for the world to transform to the
better.