How To Find Your True Calling – Lessons From The Inventor Of The Phone

He refused to have a phone in his office calling it a “distraction”, spent most nights reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, and almost worked himself to death.“When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”“A person, as a general rule, owes very little to what he or she is born with – they are what they make of themselves.”“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”Bell would teach by day and experiment by night, often losing incredible amounts of sleep. He developed severe headaches, working to exhaustion, but persisted anyway.An excited Watson ran upstairs to tell Bell he could hear him over the wire. According to Watson, Bell forgot all about the acid he spilled, realizing what had just happened – the telephone was born. It was several months later that Bell and Watson held a phone conversation between Boston and Cambridge, a distance of two miles.A short time after his invention was made public, Bell wanted to sell his patent to Western Union. But unbelievably, the company dismissed the telephone as a “useless toy” that would never amount to much.

Alexander Graham Bell, credited with inventing the telephone, followed his curiosity to discover his purpose. For millions suffering from a lack of direction, Bell’s life is a blueprint for realizing why we are here on planet earth.