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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

But because of this beautiful trait of his, as a boy, he faced a great inconvenience.

While reading books from his father’s library, he came across a book by a great French writer. He hadn’t noticed that what was being studied in that book continued in almost a hundred other thick books. It was difficult for him to read such volumes from just one author. But when he started, he didn’t want to give up until he had read them all. And when he finished the last one, he exclaimed, “Never again!”

This incident taught Tesla a lot because he vowed since then never to start anything before carefully considering what the end of what he intended to start would be like. Indeed, this has been very useful to him. For all his inventions, he always carefully calculated everything first so that his efforts would not be in vain, and only when he thoroughly understood the essence of what he was exploring in his mind, he would proceed to its realization, always achieving success.