Robert Michael Nesmith!
Well, no, this blog is not about him! At least not the main part!
Do you remember the movie, Shrek?
The blog is not about that movie also!
In the end, there’s a song called I am a believer!
Well this blog is not upon that, also!
This blog is about Bette Nesmith Graham!
So ‘I am a believer’ is one of the greatest hits made more famous by the movie Shrek of the group called The monkees!
No, that’s not a typo. It is like that!
One of the members of this group was Robert Michael Nesmith!
A talented musician who of often played a custom-built Gretsch 12-string electric guitar both with the Monkees and afterward!
The blog is also not about the guitar! (at least not this one!)
So before he became famous and rich and a musician, he was part of a family of a single Mother, who was struggling to type as a secretary and often made mistakes (who doesnt!?)!
But the mother later became an inventor and heiress with over 50 million dollars in assets!
Bette Nesmith Graham while working as an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust in the 1950s, found that the new electric typewriters made more errors, requiring time-consuming retyping of entire pages.
Inspired by watching painters who would paint over errors rather than trying to erase them, she realized she could do the same with typing mistakes!
She experimented in her kitchen, mixing white tempera paint with a blender and putting it into nail polish bottles.
She first called her concoction “Mistake Out” and secretly used it at work before selling it to fellow secretaries.
After being fired from the bank Bette focused entirely on her invention, renaming it “Liquid Paper” in 1958! This was because with bills to pay; she had no time to stop and think!
By 1968, she was producing one million bottles annually from a converted garage/plant!
Finally in 1979, she sold the Liquid Paper Corporation to the Gillette Company for $47.5 million plus royalties!
So she was a believer right!? Believing that persistence, intelligence, and innovation will yield result!
Also grit determination can make you a legend! Like Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC! The hero of Ladakh and Kargil!
By the way the invention above is the correction ink!
Don’t lose you sleep thinking about that!
Shubh ratri!
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