9 Lessons I Learned from Nikola Tesla about Innovation, Science, and Vision for the Future

9 Lessons I Learned from Nikola Tesla about Innovation, Science, and Vision for the Future In 1893, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Nikola Tesla stood in front of an audience and did something that looked like magic. He held a light bulb in his hand—without wires, without plugs, without any visible source of power—and it glowed. People gasped. This was more than a parlor trick; it was the unveiling of a way of thinking about energy that challenged everything the world had taken for granted. In that instant, the rules of how electricity could be harnessed and shared were rewritten. And Tesla, the man behind the demonstration, was not simply an inventor. He was a visionary who lived perpetually ten steps ahead of his time. When we talk about genius, we often imagine the polished, finished product: the breakthrough discovery, the glittering achievement, the invention that changes the world. But with Tesla, the story is messier, more complicated, and infinitely more human. His life was not just a sequence of triumphant experiments. Grab a copy of this book now!