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10 Tips to Boost Self-Esteem and Feel Great About Yourself
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5 min readJul 6, 2022
One day, Thomas Alva Edison returned and gave his mom a note:
He told her, “My teacher gave me this note and told me to only give it to my mother.”
Her mother’s eyes were loaded with tears as she read aloud the letter she had presented to her son. And the letter went like this:
“His son is a prodigy. This school is too insignificant for him, and we don’t have excellent teachers to teach him. Please instruct him yourself.”
After Edison’s mother passed away, he was one of the century’s greatest inventors.
One day, he was looking at some old family things. Suddenly, he saw a folded paper framed by a drawing on the desk.
He took it and opened it. On the manuscript was written:“His son is addle…
