I hope you’re having a nice weekend. Here’s this week’s 200 word idea thanks to Mastery by Robert Greene..
Louis Pasteur spent years arguing for the fact that diseases are caused by germs. This was contrary to the view at the time so he needed data from multiple experiments to prove his point. While experimenting with germ theory in 1879, he began researching cholera in chickens. However, his work got interrupted and he left the cholera cultures untouched for several months.
When he found his cultures again, he injected them into chickens and was surprised to find that they all recovered easily from the disease. Here’s what is amazing – Louis Pasteur was not the first person to see this occur. Many doctors had witnessed similar phenomena but, since this wasn’t what they were researching, they ignored it.
Pasteur, however, dug deep and experimented with old and new cultures. A combination of his broad understanding of the sciences as well as a willingness to be open to new ideas led him to a ground breaking discovery – vaccination.
As masters have repeatedly demonstrated, preparation, openness and opportunity go together.
Source and thanks to: Wikipedia
Chance favors only the prepared mind – Louis Pasteur
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