COPY THIS QUICK and make money: How Copying Miserable Failures Gave Us Flight — And Made Fortunes
What happened at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on 17th December 1903 changed history forever. Two high school dropouts who repaired bicycles for a living put a heavier-than-air machine into the sky for 59 seconds and 852 feet. Nothing even remotely close had ever happened before.
That short flight ended centuries of failure. And it holds a powerful business lesson that most people completely miss.
The Lesson Up Front: Copy Success, But Learn to Copy Failure
Most people know you can make a fortune by copying success. That is called creative imitation.
This is how Japan rose from the ashes of the Second World War to become a financial superpower. They studied successful products, found a way to produce them more cheaply, and mass-produced them. It is the same model China uses today — study an expensive smartphone, find cheaper materials and shortcuts, and sell to 100 million people instead of 100,000.
Everybody knows you can copy success, do it in your own way, do it better, and prosper.
But the story of flight proves something far more valuable: you can copy miserable failures and make a fortune from them.
In 1901, Top Experts Said Mechanized Flight Was Impossible
As recently as 1901, it was widely believed that mechanized, heavier-than-air flight was impossible. Reputable newspapers and experts around the world had confirmed it. Flight belonged to the birds.
Just two years later, Orville and Wilbur Wright proved them all wrong.
Everyone knows the Wright brothers story. What most people do not know are the events that led to that historic day. In my humble view, that hidden story is where the real lesson lies.
Two High School Dropouts Who Studied Failure
The Wright brothers were bicycle repairmen. That is basic mechanical engineering, but it is still mechanical engineering.
When they decided to tackle aeronautical engineering, they started with research — not into successes, because there were none, but into failures. Men who had attempted to fly and failed. Some had even lost their lives trying.
There was no internet then. They used libraries and snail mail. They wrote letters asking for as much information as possible on failed projects.
Very quickly they zeroed in on the wind tunnel — a tunnel with a stream of air of known velocity used to test how a solid object behaves against wind.
And then they discovered something critical: much of the data they were sent was wrong. The previous calculations from those failed projects were wrong.
That was one of the reasons those projects had failed. The brothers corrected the calculations, came up with the correct figures, and set to work building their flying machine.
They Already Knew It Would Fly
An aircraft stays up because of the behaviour of wind under the wings. The basics are still the same today. If you try to climb too quickly, you stall and fall because there is not enough wind — not enough lift — under the wing.
Following their corrected calculations, the Wright brothers realized they had to dramatically increase their wing area to more than 500 square feet. Which they did.
So even before the experiment on 17th December 1903, they already knew their object was going to fly. It was an experiment, yes, but they were sure. Why? Because their calculations were correct.
Oh yes. Calculations, not luck.
Why Studying Failure Is a Shortcut to Success
Many entrepreneurs have done the same — studied very carefully where others failed before them, and then created success from it.
Studying failure is an amazing shortcut, and it makes complete sense. Why repeat the same mistakes others made just to discover them for yourself? Is it not far better to skip the mistakes of others while correcting them? Of course it brings you much closer to success.
Let me explain with the books we promote on this channel.
The 101 business ideas eBook took over five years for me to put together. Each and every idea has been put through the wind tunnel. We have confirmed it can fly. The same with the marketing ideas and the ideas for getting plenty of customers right away.
All you have to do is implement them, make your own personal modifications and improvements, and it will fly for much longer. Those modifications are necessary. For example, an idea on getting customers quickly might be written around selling solar panels, but you are doing something else. You will have to adapt it to your business for it to fly for you.
Think of these ideas as near-successes. You are landing at Kitty Hawk, very close to your success, on the verge of your success, because someone else has already absorbed most of the mistakes.
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