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Dayville High in Oregon, with only eighteen girls in the school, once ran a 65-game volleyball winning streak. After the eventual…
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Value in Disaster
Account of Thomas Edison’s factory fire, December 1914
In December 1914 Thomas Edison’s manufacturing facilities in West Orange were heavily damaged by fire. He lost nearly a million dollars in equipment and records of much of his work. The next morning, walking through the charred remains, the 67-year-old inventor said, “There is value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Now we can start anew.” The losses were real. So was the decision not to let them become the final word.
How you’d preach it
Strong for reframing failure and loss. Edison’s response the morning after the fire is the point.
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