I don't think I could do all those things?!?! And if I tried i'd probably just feel like i was going crazy. I think that kind of thing only works for geniuses. Actually numbers 4, 5, and 6 are used extensively in teaching new product development Marketing courses at Universities. We an all do it if we just practice it. Those are all just exercises in logic, nothing more. Or at least to me they are. How are you supposed to know if it's working? If you suddenly come up with the theory of general relativity spontaneously? Say to yourself, "What would W do? Then do the opposite. A work of genius every time. Peter The Peter Files Blog of Comedy, Satire, Jokes and Commentary. "Thinking is not genius and wishing does not make it so." -Albert Einstein Some exercises in Logic and some sofisms. It's all about see the world with new eyes and in a new perspective. Long Life to Philosophy I got carried away spending a lot of time writing about a tangent, but now it's written I figure it shouldn't hurt, and will only take up a few Bytes. Genius is a term we can use when we have run out of ways to describe someone. I think one of the things about a genius, is there is nothing to compare them with. It is a genius who can discover a profound truth and be able to explain it in a way that makes it understandable to someone who has never heard it before. One of the reasons Einstein was a genius is because he explained relativity in a way that was much clearer than any blackboard full of algebra. He managed to relate something familiar to a revolutionary concept. He also described ... Just out of curiosity ... One of the reasons Einstein was a genius is because he explained relativity in a way that was much clearer than any blackboard full of algebra.Is this true? I don't know anyone who really claims to understand either general or special relativity, and certainly not from reading Einstein's own words. Einstein didn't make the theory of relativity easy to understand, it was always something he felt was incomplete, but he gave something that had not been imagined by anyone else form, and it is to his credit that even the most fundamental aspects of relativity could be understood by anyone but himself. To me the mark of genius is being able to explain something fairly complex to a rather dim 5th grader. That's my wife's job description, and she uses (and teaches) all these techniques to allow Learning Disabled and outright retarded kids use the brains they have more effectively. And, yes, it works. Raw IQ alone is not enough. |
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