#Noble September 16
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I am currently reading a book called “Better Than Good” by Zig Ziglar.
Part of the book covers a story about Charles Goodyear that I found fascinating. The story on Goodyear is found in Chapter 10 called The Power of Grit. The chapter states that the best account of Charles Goodyear life was a book called NOBLE Obsession by Charles Slack.
Some synonyms of NOBLE include good, virtuous, honorable, and righteous. When I learned the entire story of Charles Goodyear I was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he was NOBLE.
First let me tell you three things about Charles Goodyear.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is named after him.
Charles Goodyear died, in 1860, and he was $200,000 in debt
Neither Goodyear nor his family was ever connected with the company named in his honor, today’s billion-dollar Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the world’s largest rubber business.
Charles Goodyear believed he had been called by “God” to solve a specific scientific problem. The problem, how to allow rubber to keep its best properties during extreme cold and heat. Rubber became all the rage in 1830 but in five short years its problems of becoming soft and gooey when exposed to heat caused America to pronounce rubber as dead.
Charles Goodyear began a lifelong NOBLE Obession of finding an answer to having rubber hold its shape. In 1839 he mixed raw rubber with white lead and sulfur. He discovered the process known today as vulcanization.
Goodyear believed working at your purpose in life was NOBLE. He did this without fame or fortune. In fact the patent he was granted expired five years after he died.
In 1898 nearly 40 years after Charles Goodyear’s death Frank and Charles Seibring founded Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. They named it in his honor.
When you discover God’s purpose for your life and you choose to pursue it that is NOBLE.
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