In the movie we see Edison as a man who is very good at getting what he wants. He has the self determination to strive to accomplish newer inventions. More than once during the movie he was nearly shut down, because of the lack of inventions he currently had being finished, so he would just work harder until he got something that could save him. In the beginning of the movie he sells a upgraded telegraph to a large business firm, and this shows how he knew that he needed to make money. I think this started him on the road to thinking that he could make a very large sum of money, by creating something new and/or better than something that already exists. As an inventor he was all four of the hats.
He was the explorer hat as he was able to come up with new idea’s and a basic way to do them. He would then take this knowledge and start to apply it to his work. He would always think through a problem before starting to test it so that he was always sure that it would work the first time.
He was an artist when he would take these initial results and think about what they meant. With the phonograph he was an artist when he saw the possibility for a type of machine that worked off of vibrations from a piece of foil.
He was a judge when he tried again and again to make the light bulb work. Although he said at one point that he had tried over 9000 different things and none of them worked. One of his helpers said that they had learned nothing in response to this. Edison replied that they had learned of 9000 things that didn’t work.
He was a warrior when he discovered the filament that did finially work. He was not as excited as one would expect, but kept working to make sure that he had found the right solution.
