"Tesla Time" Part II Journal 4-3ish?

Alana Prettitore
April 22, 2008
Tesla Part II
4-3 ish

The path to success is littered with unrewarded genius and unsuccessful talent. Explain how Tesla’s weakness, his lack of social skills, plays a part in his successes and failures. How did this affect his career and reputation? What kind of moral can be drawn from Tesla’s life?

While Tesla achieved a great many accomplishments and contributed much to mankind, his career, reputation, and personal life severed so much because of his social phobias and lack of appropriate interactions. He had poor communication skills and even more abysmal ability to connect with others. His friendships with the elite were superficial and he never got too close to anybody.

During his career, he constantly lost money and ended up essentially penniless at death because of his poor social skills. First, he lost big with Westinghouse as well as Edison when he didn’t see the signs that they were going to betray him. Furthermore, he had the right to claim so much money from them. Yet, he let his pride prevent him from collecting what he deserved. He could have been a multi-billionaire. However, his stubbornness ruined him from taking advantage of these opportunities.

Furthermore, this damaged his relationships, and because he let people disrespect him, nobody respected him. Also, they were also turned off when they knew all of his hang-ups. All in all, this is the real reason why more people have not heard of this inventor. The moral is to pay attention to your surroundings and always be perceptive of what others are capable of.