Obsessively Succeeded over So Called Collaboration.
"Shy and nearly deaf, Thomas Edison toiled so obsessively in his laboratory
that his own family barely knew him... winning more than a thousand patents..
The myth of the lone genius.
But in reality TE needed help, even if collaboration wasn't easy for him...
Nikola Tesla described TE this way:
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard
of the most elementary rules of hygiene", SZ/NYT, 30.04.12