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  1. Dec 8, 2021 · He has adopted Edison’s trick in his personal life, napping at his desk and waking up when his head falls forward to then write down his dreams. Now that the technique is validated, he says, it will make research on sleep and creativity easier. The study team also identified a brain activity pattern linked to the creativity-boosting phase ...

  2. Oct 22, 2018 · Health Oct 22, 2018 3:58 PM EDT. Thomas Edison often claimed that Oct. 22, 1879 was the first successful test of his famous light bulb and, hence, the true anniversary of its creation. It was on ...

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  3. Feb 11, 2013 · It took Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847–October 18, 1931) superhuman feats of biology to fuel his astoundingly ambitious to-do list. He reportedly slept a mere three to four hours at night, “regarding sleep as a waste of time, ‘a heritage from our cave days,'” as James Maas tells us in his 1997 productivity bestseller Power Sleep ( public library ).

  4. Dec 14, 2012 · “Ninety-eight per cent. of genius is hard work,” says Thomas A. Edison, and he adds, “As for genius being inspired, inspiration is in most cases another word for perspiration.” As the foremost example in the world of one type of genius, Mr. Edison is an authority on the subject, and his aphorism corroborates Johnson’s often-quoted definition of genius, “the infinite capacity for ...

  5. Feb 11, 2016 · 1. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." 2. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's ...

  6. Dec 9, 2021 · Thomas Edison naps under a tree in 1921, ... a technology that monitors brain, eye and muscle activity to assess a person's state of wakefulness. ... Oudiette says that, like Edison, her personal ...

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  8. Sep 16, 2010 · “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” — Thomas Edison. If the brain truly rules the roost, as Edison believed, the collection of brains now on permanent exhibit at Yale’s Sterling Hall of Medicine documents how medicine came to appreciate the organ’s preeminence and decipher its inner workings during the past 100 years.

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