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because Central Europe was not broad enough for him. And that was just preparation, just an introduction to his real work. After his education, he had the opportunity to increase his involvement in what he loves. True, in Europe, in Budapest, Strasbourg, and Paris, as an engineer in foreign companies, he had to devote a large part of his time to the duties required of him. However, soon he moves to America, first with Edison, and finds far more favorable conditions for work in the field he loves. At that time, the young Tesla amazed even the giant Edison himself with his perseverance in work. Edisonâs diligence was greatly contributed by his severe deafness. Later, when his own Teslaâs company was established, he achieved the pinnacle of his industriousness and results.
Tesla at one point refuses to be considered a hardworking person; on the contrary, he considers himself more lazy than hardworking. He always found it difficult to do what he had to do; only when he was interested in something, he would work tirelessly. Thatâs why he was more valuable in technology than in real life, and as an independent man more than as an engineer in someone elseâs service.
To avoid drawing incorrect conclusions about Tesla as a person who only does what he loves, it is necessary to immediately mention one particular characteristic of Tesla that sets him apart in a separate and smallest group of great people. He always goes to the end. As a student, he once decided to read Voltaireâs works from cover to cover. At first, it was a pleasure, later he became less interested in Voltaire, and time and energy were increasingly needed on the other side. Still, against reason and against the heart, Tesla kept his promise and read the works of the French philosopher to the last page. He was always like that. When he discovers a law, he himself thinks up and realizes a machine for utilizing his discovery to the last screw and lever.
So far, one can find many examples similar to Tesla in the lives of famous people, but then there is a section in his life that represents the first terrible trial from which very few people come out. Tesla heroically emerged from the ordeal of the dizzyingly high takeoff. Success has come. He beats his opponents both theoretically and practically; materially, in the true sense of the word, he is showered with golden rain; he morally achieves world fame in the fullest sense of the word. But even that height does not cause dizziness in his head, nor does the golden rain dilute his character, nor does it hinder him on the way to the set goal. Tesla earns millions of dollars, but also throws them away; of course, he throws them very wisely, into new experiments on the laws of nature, into new subjugations of natural forces in the service of humanity.
Fate did not spare Tesla from another, far more difficult ordeal. A fellowship of men, to whom he brought power over nature,
