What characterises the intelligence of a genius? How can you unleash your personal genius? What special skills can be developed by following Albert Einstein's example?
This handbook is born out of a desire to offer practical answers to these questions. Genius is inherent at a potential level in the very physiological structure of the human brain. Scientific research in recent decades has demonstrated the plasticity of the human mind and the enormous potential of our intelligence. The intellectual resources we do not use are enormous. Our ability to unleash insights, to look at problems we face from a different angle and to find new solutions is literally infinite. Decades of research into intelligence and the thought patterns used by Albert Einstein have shown that it is possible to increase one's intelligence and use the mind to access mental resources in a different way, to find insights and solutions that would otherwise remain dormant.
The tools and strategies described are intended to introduce people to Einstein's thought processes. But this book is also a personal path to start thinking differently and to make genius part of one's daily life.
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF A GENIUS
THE IDEA OF CREATING A GENIUS IN THE LABORATORY
THE NEUROANATOMY OF A GENIUS
HOW EINSTEIN CONSIDERED GENIUS
THE EINSTENIAN METHOD
BUILDING NEW PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES
THE HISTORY OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
FACTORS COMMON TO MAJOR GENES
FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF EINSTEIN
THE IMPORTANCE OF DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
OBSTACLES TO GENERATIVE THINKING
CHALLENGING BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
TOWARDS A GENERATIVE APPROACH
STRATEGIES OF EXPERIENCED SOLVERS
THE STRUCTURE OF EINSTEIN'S THOUGHT
METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE
CONSTRUCTING IMAGES AND METAPHORS
THE COMBINATORY GAME
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA
AN APPLICATION VIEW
THE PHANTOM GORILLA EXPERIMENT
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT TIME AND SPACE
KEY COMPETENCES NECESSARY FOR THE USE OF THE EINSTENIAN THINKING STRATEGY
UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
EINSTENIAN THINKING IN BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS
MANAGING CREATIVITY
THE COSTS OF CREATIVITY
QUESTIONING THE STATUS QUO
CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
Notes
INTRODUCTION
"Genius is nothing more than the ability to observe reality from non-ordinary perspectives. While an intelligent person, when he manages to find a needle in a haystack, stops satisfied, the genius continues to search to find a second, a third and possibly a fourth.".
A. Einstein
What characterises the intelligence of a genius? How can you unleash your personal genius? What special skills can be developed by following Albert Einstein's example?
This manual was born out of a desire to offer practical answers to these questions. Genius is inherent at a potential level in the very physiological structure of the human brain. Scientific research in recent decades has demonstrated the plasticity of the human mind and the enormous potential of our intelligence. As we will see over the next few pages, it is not the physical structure that makes the difference between those we regard as geniuses and ordinary people, but how we choose to use what we have been given as a gift.
At the potential level, the intellectual resources we do not use are enormous. Our ability to unleash insights, to look at problems we face from a different angle and to find new solutions is literally infinite.
To succeed in this task, however, we need to use our brains in a different way than we are used to. Albert Einstein showed us the way, explaining that 'the intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift'.
Today, science has confirmed in numerous ways that it is possible to increase intelligence. This is an established fact, but many people are still surprised when they discover that they can improve their results in intelligence tests. Moreover, IQ is only a measurement of a specific type of intelligence. With constant effort, you can improve your creative, emotional, spatial, musical, logical and mathematical intelligence and so on.
The techniques suggested within this book have been discovered through decades of research and show you how to use your mind to access your mental resources in a different way and to find insights and solutions that would otherwise remain dormant.
But this book also represents a path that every person is called upon to take. Making genius part of one's daily life requires the development of confidence that one can really think differently. The patience to commit oneself, to see the first results materialise.
It is our task to encourage the brain to open up to its potential. The tools described here are intended to introduce people to Einstein's thought processes. But it is also a fascinating journey, designed to entertain, stimulate and challenge the reader. You will discover some surprising facts about your brain and how it works. And if you really want to, you can head out to discover your own personal genius and the results you can achieve by tapping into the part of our brain that we are not used to using.
