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    Why can't our children become Edison

    • Last Update: 2013-09-13
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    In 1858, 11-year-old Edison began selling the Detroit paper on the Huron Detroit train He usually boarded the train at 7 a.m with a pile of newspapers in his arms, and could not get home until more than 10 p.m after selling out Edison, who sells newspapers on the train, is often driven away and scolded by the conductor, but he doesn't think it's too tired and hard What makes him feel the most difficult is how many newspapers should he buy every day? Because I'm afraid that I'll lose money if I'm too much in, and I'm afraid that I'll miss the chance to make money if I'm not enough in Edison began to think about this problem seriously He found that whether a newspaper is good or not depends largely on the above content, rather than his own shouting Then, how can we know the content of the newspaper on that day as quickly and accurately as possible? Edison thought of a man, that is the typesetter of the newspaper! So Edison found a typesetter in the Detroit newspaper, and gave him a little advantage to inform him in advance of the content of the next day's newspaper, especially the important news, and then decide whether to enter more or less newspapers One day, the typesetter told Edison that there would be an important news about the battle of shayno in the next day's newspaper It was the largest battle in the civil war of the United States, and it was hard to win or lose Edison immediately realized that this was an important piece of news, which was sure to be popular with readers, so he decided to enter more newspapers But he thought again and again that he could not arouse people's desire for reading and buying to the greatest extent by selling by himself alone He had to lay a good foundation in advance and try to catch their appetite How to hang it? Edison thought of making a news forecast so that people along the railway could hear about it, and the newspaper would sell well So Edison found the telegraph operator of the station and asked him to call the station masters of the main stations along the line, write the news on the board of the report train operation time column, and make an invisible advance publicity In return, Edison will give each other half a year's free Detroit paper and a magazine, which the telegraph operator happily agreed to To do all this, Edison went to the Detroit newspaper and asked to order 1500 newspapers, but the money would not be paid until the newspapers were sold out, and the price was greatly reduced by the amount, only two cents per copy Finally, the newspaper agreed to Edison's request The next day, Edison got on the train with 1500 newspapers When the train arrived at the platform of the first station, Edison knew that he had succeeded The platform was full of people waiting to buy newspapers Soon, he sold 200 newspapers for 5 cents a share; at the second station, he sold 300 newspapers for 1 jiao a share, and the rest were sold to the people in the following stations for 30 cents Edison was not complacent about the success of the newspaper sale Instead, he calmly analyzed one of the important reasons for the newspaper's success: the function of the message as a warning The message was sent by the telegraph, which could not be blocked by space and time He thought the telegram was too magical, so he quietly learned the technology of sending and receiving telegrams Later, after five years of hard study, he finally invented the dual, quadruple, and sixfold newspaper recorders, transmitters and automatic transmitters, which made great contributions to the human communication industry and won rich wealth for himself It's a key factor for Edison to sell newspapers on the train successfully, and it's also a necessary quality for him to become a great inventor But it's hard for our children who are bothered by the duck filled education all day sitting in the classroom to have Edison's divergence and grounding The way of thinking.
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