Joyanna Adams

Thomas Edison: Elon Musk: Genuis in Common

Nobody Reads

Tonight I did something I have kept myself from doing for quite some time: I bought 5 new books…Master of War by Suzanne Simons—Trump’s Enemies by Corey R. Lewandowskii and David N. Bossie—Death of a Nation by DineshD’Souza—Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy—and Truman by David McCullough. All in excellent condition. and ALL only three dollars apiece. Can’t beat that.

I was thinking about this tonight and went and go my copy of one of my favorite books: The Diary and Observatons of Thomas Edison. Edison had read his whole town’s library by the time he was eleven. Sound familiar? Elon Musk read the entire Encyclopidea even younger than that.

From his book: “The sun has left us on time. Am going to read from the Encyclopidea Brittanica to steady my nerves and go to bed early. I will shut my eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful maiden.” Yes, great genuis seem to have a LOT in common. Like Edison before him, I’m sure Elon Musk had done the same routine many times.

Sigh. Yes, you see, this has always been a horrible problem with me. Ever since I learned how to read, I could NOT stop. And as I grew into puberty, I was always attracted to the smartest kid in the school, or my history teacher in college, or as I got older, I dated Lee Salk, Jonas’ brother. Imagine my surprise to find out I had actaully read more books than Lee. What I WANTED was knowledge. What THEY wanted was…sex. Yeah. Shocker. If only they had explored my mind. LOL.

But today, I remembered Edison saying he walked into a book store and wanted to read them all. That was me today. Of course you can’t. Thomas Edison, like Elon Musk, learned a lot from books.

From Edison’s diary:

“I generally recommend only those books that are written by men who actually try to describe things plainly, simply and by analogy with things everybody knows. (Once again: Elon is good at this when he speaks.) I use these books to prevent waste of time, and money, by not doing again the things that have already been done or tried out by others–unless you want to make the experiment again, just as you like to hear a piece of music again. See how Faraday’s works are crammed with the simple report of test and discoveries, his record being like that in the very rocks. Look at the recent reprint in five or six languages, including the original Latin, of Oersted’s great determinations in electro- magnetism. It’s awfully short, but there is literally an experiment and a fact in every line. Such is truth forever. “

“Such is truth forever.” I LOVE that line.

Edison also read a lot of newspaper, and today, we get our news off the internet, and streaming cable. And with the invention of Grok 3 and the upcoming super A.I. which will be everywhere, knowledge will be free and instant. I think, Edison would be blown away.

I won’t tell you all the common sense and wisdom in this little book, which I’m sure few people know about. And my heart goes to the political world where my ancestors read…I swear I have their DNA. The Adams library were incredible. Nobody else in my family reads at all. But me? I will probably die with a book in my hands,…As for Thomas Edison? To me, he lit up the world. The idea for sound, he had that idea, and made it happen. The idea for motion pictures? He had that idea and made it happen. The idea for the light bulb? He had that idea and made it happen.

Personally, I don’t think he gets enough credit–they mention Tesla, and Einstein, but Thomas Edison? The globalist want you to erase him..because just ONE man pushed us into this world we see now. Without the inventions of sound, light, motion pictures, recorded talking…the progress our inventors are doing today would not be noticed.

Maybe Telsa did this. I don’t know enough about him. But what I DO know is Edison was a visionary, and pushed the whole world into it’s next level.

And that is exactly what Elon Musk is doing now. Pushing us all into the future.

Elon Musk, is more of an Edison than a Tesla. Sure, Tesla was great, BUT Edsion had the IDEAS and made them into reality. That’s not so easy, but only hard work lit up the world…remember Tesla WORKED for Edison, and he went on to upgrade Edison’s original idea of the currents. But EDISON…remember, HE had the idea (which he got maybe from someone esle BUT…he made it happen, first.

Elon Musk says his mind is full of creative ideas. It’s getting them into production that is hard. And he has another thing in common with Edison: tenacity.

From Edison’s diary:

“I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. I recall that after we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed. “to find out nothing.” I cheerily assured him that we HAD learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldn’t be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way. We sometimes learn a lot from our failures if we have put into the effort the best thought and work we are capable of.”

Sound familar?

As I was carrying my new books out of the store, I wanted more…but I told my husband, “GET ME OUT OF HERE!” I remembered a few lines from Edison’s diary:

“Went into scribner & Sons on way up saw about a thousand books I wanted. Right off Mind No. 1 said, Why not buy a box full and send to Boston now. Mind No 2 (acuired and worldly mind) gave a most withering mental glace at Mind No 1 and said, You fool buy only two books. These you can carry without trouble and will last until you get to Boston.”

Well…I’m home now. Happy…and I can’t WAIT to escape into the world of men and ideas.

Now, if ONLY I could get a really smart man to like me for more than sex. LOL…Mind no. 1 say:

Uh…not going to happen honey. Even genuis are just men. Ask Elon. He’ll tell you.

March 25, 2025 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized