Inventor James Dyson is famous for his homonymous vacuum cleaners that use his patented cyclone technology. Its net value is $ 16.8 billion per Bloomberg billionaire.
But he says that “mine is a life of failure.”
In a video interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Saturday. Dyson – Who said he had created 5,127 prototypes over five years before launching his bagless vacuum cleaner in 1993 – said that the kissing of failure was essential to life.
“It is true for writers and filmmakers and all kinds of people. It is a life of failure. It takes a long time before finding the one that works,” he said. “Just get used to this.”
Dyson, 77, said he loved the failures and struggles he had during his career, saying that real wisdom comes from experience.
“At school, you are told to get the answer the first time,” he said. Although an intelligent student can quickly obtain the answer, he said, he is disadvantaged for those who take their time to answer, because he has not “undergone a visceral failure and on the surprise”.
For Dyson, resilience and adaptability are some of the most important skills that someone can learn. “Life is to make things work,” he said.
He continued: “This is what you have to do. It is tests and errors. When something works, it’s less difficult, it’s less interesting.”
In addition to the numerous prototypes, it took him to invent the first vacuum cleaner with his homonymous brand, Dyson abandoned the plans to enter the electric cars market in 2019 after spending more than $ 600 million to develop a vehicle he made was not commercially viable.
“”The road to success is never linear. This is not the first project that has changed orientation and it will not be the last, “he wrote in a letter announcing the decision.
He said about his abandoned EV vehicle: “I could see that it was simply too risky.”
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