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Father: (politely) Come here. You always say that you want to become a

scientist.

Viraat: Yes, I do.

Father: Do you know the volume of hard work required to become one?

Viraat: I understand.

Father: (smiling) No, you don’t. If you did, you wouldn’t get restless so easily.
The bulb that you are calling ‘silly’, do you know who invented it?

Viraat is fond of science so he knows the answer.
Viraat: Thomas Alva Edison.

Father: Do you know how many attempts it took him to invent the bulb?

Viraat: No

Father: 1,000

Viraat: (shocked) What!

Father: Yes, dear. In school, Edison wasn’t considered very bright. He was

told that he couldn’t learn anything. He was fired from two jobs for

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