Show edison averaged about 18 hours a day at work edison always had a hundred things he was burning to try if he was away from his work he made a long list of things to be done next day putting salt on the tail of an idea was his happiness and when some experiment turned out successfully ho he would dance about to his assistants amazement on one of his birthdays a visitor expressed the wish that edison would live many more years taking the usual little pencil stub from his vest pocket he made a careful calculation and then said how would it be to live about years I 1 ive ve just figured that im working double shift so compared with the average single shift man it if I 1 live to be eighty id really be one hundred forty five years old Edi sons energy was vital and tra tremendous men dous he worked about 18 hours a day and he was a night owl by choice but when he was fagged bagged he could hit the hay and sleep like a baby short naps after exhaustion ha brought him back to a task completely refreshed he once said most men do their work in a series of efforts that require a lot more time than continuous application when I 1 have a problem there is no letup let up until I 1 get somewhere on it if I 1 am up half the night when I 1 do go to bed it is usually in contentment while your routine man may worry about a matter for a week before he arrives anywhere on a problem |