How to Think Like a Genius 28-Time
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/01/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the sheer amount of time required to become a genius?
Rick Rosner: That’s probably the most important factor. Feynman prided himself on his average IQ to the point that people have an actual IQ. But when you look at the biographies of geniuses, even when they early success like Einstein who published his 4 huge papers at the age of 26. They had been thinking about tough problems for a long time. Einstein first became fascinated with unseen physical processes. Namely, the force that kept a compass needle pointing north since the time he was a small child.
By the time he was 26, he had been thinking about the structure of the world for close to two decades in some semi-concerted or at least thinking about it every day way. Darwin: one reason that evolution was immediately huge was that the theory is that Darwin worked on the theory for close to at least 20 years between going on the voyage of The Beagle and being to forced to publish when his friends told him that another guy was on the verge on working on the same theory.
Darwin came out with huge, even then I think he still took — he announced his theory in conjunction with — I forget.
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