LEARNING BY TRIAL AND ERROR

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.

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