The Power of Words:

Revanth Goud
2 min readSep 29, 2022

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One day, as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a paper to his mother. He said to her, “Mom, my teacher gave his paper to me and told me only you have to read it. What does it say?"

Her eyes began to swell with tears as she read the letter out loud to her child. Your son is a Genius. This school is too small for him and does not have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.

His mother did just that until she fell in and passed away. Many years after Edison’s mother died, he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.

One day, he went through some of her things and found the folded letter that his old teacher wrote his mother that day. He opened it..

The message written on the letter was “Your son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school anymore. He is expelled”. Edison became emotional reading it and then wrote in his diary.

“Thomas A. Edison was a mentally deficient child whose mother turned him into the Genius of the century”.

Words are Double-Edged Sword that they can be tools that create, encourage and uplift or diminishes and destroys you. Be Conscious of what comes out of your mouth.

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