It still has a great lesson, particularly in today's world where the tendency is to build someone up and then knock them down.
One day the great man was giving a class to a hall full of students. Without saying a word, he started writing the 9 x table on a board, as follows:
9 x 1 = 9
9 x 2 = 18
He continued to do so all the way up to 9 x 9 without making a mistake. When he got to the next in the times table scale, he wrote:
9 x 10 = 91
The hall of students immediately erupted in laughter and general chaos because, extraordinarily, Einstein had made a mistake. This was Einstein! How could this genius get such a simple calculation wrong?
Einstein waited for everyone to be silent and then delivered a powerful lesson that no one soon forgot:
"Despite the fact that I analyzed nine problems correctly, no one congratulated me. But when I made one mistake, everyone started laughing. This means that even if a person is successful, society will notice his slightest mistake. And they'll like that. So don't let criticism destroy your dreams. The only person who never makes a mistake is someone who does nothing.”
It’s a reminder that even the most brilliant among us are not immune to mistakes.
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