This week's affirmation: "I believe in my talents, abilities and potential. Even if something has been done before, it hasn't been done by me. I make the difference."
I was watching a story about Jack Andraka the (now) 16-year-old who developed a cheaper, more accurate test for diagnosing pancreatic cancer. It said that before he became a household name, he'd contacted nearly 200 scientists asking for lab space before he found one that said yes. Two hundred.
Imagine if he'd stopped after the 15th rejection. Or the 73rd. Or the 148th. There are plenty of inventions and services we use today that are improvements of existing things. Imagine if we'd stopped after the first iteration of the computer, or the cell phone, or the ATM. There would probably be no internet, no Skype or any of the modern technologies that make our lives simpler.
The moral: Don't be discouraged by someone telling you it's been done before. You can always put your own stamp on things.
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