The To-Do List of a Genius
Posted by List Producer on June 5, 2012 in Benefits of List Making, Fellow List Producers, Learning With a List, List Making, Tool for Success |
The Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University
What’s on your to-do list today? Pick up groceries? Get your car washed? Go to a few meetings? Get ready to be “one upped” by a genius. Enter…Thomas Edison’s to-do list.
On his list of “things doing and to be done,” the 41-year-old wrote:
- Deaf apparatus
- Electrical piano
- Artificial silk
- Phonographic clock
- Ink for Blind
Just a few things to get done before lunch…really…
This list was created around 1888 and can be seen in The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Losses and Loyalties — the seventh volume of Rutgers University’s digitized Edison papers.
Add Edison to the long list of famous and successful list-makers like John Lennon, Johnny Cash and Ronald Reagan. They’ve proved that keeping to-do lists will make you successful. Keep listing!
