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Nikola Tesla–Who He Was, What He Had Done, and Where He Dreamed to Lead Us

Nikola Tesla is a man from the past whom the general public still knows very little of. Recently, his name has been sensationalized with all sorts of things–from conspiracies to the newest technology, but even so, people today still know only a small percentage of what the great inventor and discoverer has truly done for the science and the technology we take for granted today. 

I get asked all the time why Nikola Tesla isn’t as popular today as other well-known historical figures, but to be honest, Tesla is partly to blame. It is true that he was blackballed by corporations, such as General Electric and Radio Corporation of America, but to deny Tesla’s responsibility for the today’s lack of knowledge of himself would be leaving a big part of the story out. His fault was that he wasn’t the kind of person who needed attention to feel special. He hated the praise and notoriety he recieved for his work and accomplishments. He preferred to be hidden from the public and left alone. He did get a great joy out of sharing his work and discoveries to those who cared, and would also protest anyone who stole his work and claimed it as their own, but he hated the spotlight and hoped his inventions, discoveries, and writings would speak for themselves.

To talk about what Tesla has done for science would lead one into a maze of technical terms unsuited for the mind uneducated in electricity. To even go into the technicalities of it all would be about as entertaining as an eighth period lecture on Donald Trump’s fraudulent business career on the last day of school. So I will only dwell on who he was, what he had done, and what he hoped to accomplish for the future. 

Nikola Tesla is of the Serbian race and was born in Smilja, Lika, which during his time was located on the border of Austria-Hungary, today known as Croatia. His mother was a very talented inventor, and his father was a clergyman in the Greek Church. Tesla received his early education at Gospic in a public school, and later spent three years in the Higher Real Schule at Carstatt, Croatia. There he saw his first steam engine, which triggered his interest in electricity, and encouraged him to go against his father’s wishes, who wanted him to enter the ministry. It took Tesla surviving a cholera outbreak to persuade his father into allowing him to study science. Giving up to Tesla’s wishes, his father proposed that he become a college professor of mathematics and physics, and sent the young man to the Polytechnic School at Gratz. 

At this new school, Tesla witnessed a gramme dynamo. It was one of the first industrial motors that produced direct current electricity. Its one fault was that it had commutator that caused great friction and resistance, making it highly inefficient. Tesla believed it was possible to run the dynamo without the commutator, but his professors scolded him, and dedicated an entire lecture on how it was completely impossible. Tesla began then and there to disprove his professors, and began working on ideas that would soon develop into one of his greatest inventions, the rotating magnetic field motor.

After finally making this discovery, the plan of becoming a professor disappeared, and the young student turned inventor took up engineering instead. He left for Paris to work with a telephone company, which gave him the opportunity in 1884, to move to America in hopes of capitalizing on his new discovery. Here is where the great genius would revolutionize and practically create the 20th century. 

So what has he done?

Nikola Tesla literally has more original inventions to his credit than any other human in history. As mentioned above, he is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system that we rely on today. All electricity using or generating alternating current is due to Tesla, without which, all our power lines extending out to all businesses and households, providing light and power, would be far less advanced. Tesla invented the Induction Motor, the Tesla Rotary Converter, the Tesla Phase System of Power Transmission, the Tesla Steam and Gas Turbine, the Tesla Coil, and the Oscillation Transformer. All these inventions helped advance America and its industrial revolution far beyond what any other country had done in history. 

His popularity first rose when he first demonstrated wireless energy/power by lighting phosphorescent light bulbs wirelessly in a demonstration given before the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, 1893. In his laboratory, he conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and some of the earliest X-ray imaging, which he made more safe for medical use. He was the first invent and display neon lights, and is the father of remote control, building a wireless controlled boat exhibited in 1898. Although not recognized for, he was the first to discovery the electron, radioactivity, neutrons, cosmic rays, terrestrial resonance, and stationary waves. He was the first to explain the photoelectric effect, 4 years before Albert Einstein, and has a patent to prove it. He proposed a particle beam to be used for defense in war, which was based off his electrical experiments in Colorado Springs where he produced sparks up to 100 feet in length. He once said he could produce an artificial Aurora Borealis to light the night skies and help ships at sea in navigation with the same principle. 

His ultimate goal was to unify all his inventions into one big machine, known as his “World System,” but lacked the investments and funds to finish his work on a large scale. This machine would have provided clean, and cheap energy to the whole world! His failure to accomplish his goals left him with a distorted persona of a mad scientist, and a dreamer whose imagination created an unrealistic hope for the future. This is why his name has been twisted today.

Tesla would eventually die penniless and alone in his New York apartment, but he cared very little about that. He chose to live through all his inventions and contributions to this world that will last until the end of us all.

And that is who Nikola Tesla was.

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

–Nikola Tesla

“A Visit to Nikola Tesla,” by Dragislav L. Petković. Politika, April 1927.

GET UNSTUCK SO YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

All of us have actually remained in that sensation of being stuck at some point in our lives. You understand, that zone that feels as if there are very little, if any alternatives for relief. That zone where no matter the number of times we play it over and over in our minds, we keep winding up with the very same result. It’s simply stuck, plain stuck.

It’s the story we repeat to ourselves over and over. “I can’t take a trip, since I do not have the cash,” or “It’s impossible to go see that movie, who would look after the kids? Or “I ‘d enjoy having a small business, however at my age?” These are the stories we tell inside our minds  that keep us stuck-right where we are.

So until we stop these stories, ending up with what is, we will stay stuck permanently. Therefore when you are feeling stuck there are a number of concerns you may wish to think about, “Who should be doing what in a different way?” and “Who’s holding you back?” The responses may truly amaze you. That is to say it is now time to get unstuck so you can achieve your goals.

3 techniques to get unstuck and achieve goals, or free from your story:

1. Tell your reality

First you have to acknowledge when you feel stuck, you are making yourself a story. Get curious about that story, is it real? “I can’t handle going to see a movie,” “I can’t due to the fact that I need to look after the kids.” Where are the real parts? Did you make it up? Are they excuses? The primary step is to end with the stories and begin with reality. What is it that you truly desire? What is genuine for you? Then begin crafting a brand new story, the real story.

2. Ask for what you desire

Most of us are unable to request what we desire. We believe we’re asking, however it is grumbling and slamming others due to the fact that we do not have what we want and we have actually never ever asked for it. So get clear on what you desire, and then make the demand. Do you desire your partner to do more around your home? Then ask him or her. Do you desire your other half to be more encouraging of your goals? Then ask him or her. Do you require your next door neighbors to take care of your pet for a little bit? Then ask. Most of us would rather grumble and remain stuck than the fear of hearing a “no” from our request so we never ever ask.

Simply ask!

3. Take action

Among various methods to get unstuck is to simply get momentum going. Take huge action. Start moving on, one step in front of the other. Not ho-hum. Not without a plan, however begin making some choices. Just by simply altering your story to your real story and start requesting what you want every time, you will begin to feel much better, and begin ending up being unstuck.

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Sighing, like a hidden wind

I see your face

and breathe again

There is a light which shines

over secrets in our lives

Shines for you, and me

my friend

stars in my eyes,

stars in my heart

give me light to see

I wish, I wish

with all my soul and art

Shadows come, and shadows go

flicker fade into,

and out of existence

No resistance against the light

like a shadow in the sun

You were gone,

now you’re here

never too far away, my dear

still

You and I are one