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How to Think Like a Genius
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Kim Roach |
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Have you ever wondered how Einstein thought? Or how
Michaelangelo visualized his magnificent creations? Have you
ever pondered the thoughts of Socrates? Or wanted to explore
the mind of Plato?
These revolutionary minds tapped into their unbound
potential. They unlocked the capabilities held within their
3-pound brain.
By its very design, the human brain stores vast potential
for learning, memory, and creativity. However, the brain
does not give its power away freely. You must learn to tap
into your true potential.
God doesn't give us formal instruction manuals for our
brain. Therefore, we must explore the power of thought on
our own. Let this article be your guide.
Listed below are four strategies that will enable you to
think like Einstein, to tap into your creativity, and look
at problems in new perspectives.
1. The first step is to expand your perspective.
The genius mind will look at a problem from many different
angles. Most people only rely on their own perspective, and
therefore always have a very narrow view of the world.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about
the form of a problem, you must begin by learning how to
restructure it in many different ways. He believed that the
first way you look at a problem is entirely too biased. You
are only seeing the problem from one perspective: yours.
Einstein once said, "You cannot solve a problem with the
same type of thinking that is creating it."
By looking at a problem from different points of view, the
problem is then restated and a solution can be discovered.
2. The second step to thinking like a genius is to
Visualize!
Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Nikola
Tesla, and even Mozart all ascribed their creative genius
to their ability to visualize.
Einstein said that all of his most important and productive
thinking was done by “combinatory play” with “images” in
his mind. Einstein used images, visual patterns and
associations to discover more about the world around him.
He was often found using diagrams in order to restate the
problem and approach it in a number of different ways.
Einstein believed that the spirit of learning and creative
thought were lost in strict rote learning. Instead, he
turned to his own imagination and visualization.
Visualization is an incredibly powerful tool in solving
problems. Often times much more powerful that simply using
words or numbers.
3. The third key, and one of the most important elements to
genius thinking is that of curiosity and the courage to ask
questions.
As we grow older, however, we become passive to the world
around us. We stop asking questions, lose our much of our
curiosity, and the learning comes to a screeching halt.
Instead, we must embrace the imagination and curiosity of
our childhood. We must never stop questioning the world
around us.
Without questions, we cannont grow.
Albert Einstein once said,
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity
has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in
awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of
life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough
if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery
every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
4. The last and final step in thinking like a genius is to
Have Fun!
No person has achieved massive success by doing what they
hate. Pablo Picasso once said, “When I work I relax; doing
nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
In addition, Dale Carnegie said, “People rarely succeed
unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
The most successful people in life find work that inspires
and excites them.
I’ll leave you with a fitting poem Christain D. Larson:
When you work simply for yourself or for your own personal
gain your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of
the undeveloped personal life;
but when you are inspired by some great purpose, some
extraordinary project, all your thoughts break bounds; your
mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in
every direction;
and you find yourself in a new world, a great world, a
wonderful world; dormant powers, faculties and talents
become alive,
and you discover yourself to be a larger man by far than you
ever dreamed yourself to be.”
– Christian D. Larson, Business Psychology, 1912
Author's Bio
Kim Roach is helping others to live a life of purpose and passion at http://www.theoptimizedlife.com .
To read more of her thoughts on self improvement and personal growth, then head on over to the Optimized Life, where you can follow along on her journey.
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