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It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.
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It's an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others. Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.
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Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge," because "knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
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This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.
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It's no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives. They're audacious enough to think that they're not just an ordinary player.
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the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
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Imagination is the life force of the genius code.
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Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.
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Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.
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So, what does all this tell us? First, that the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice. Second, that there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't. What is generally recognized as "great talent" is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication t..
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Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
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seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
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Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti.
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thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.
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Examples of such remarkable transformations abound throughout history. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
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Word slowly spread among Manhattan's elite that a man of incomparable genius was digging ditches to survive. Sensing an opportunity, a band of wealthy investors eventually approached Tesla to develop an improved system of arc lighting.
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It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision
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studies
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Well, a tremendous amount of research has been done into the scientific correlation between IQ and real-life success, and a very different picture has emerged.
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While his lab was under construction, Tesla studied the phenomenon of lightning, and made what he considered his most important discovery to date. He found that the earth was "literally alive with electrical vibrations," and that the entire planet can be "thrown into vibration like a tuning fork." Tesla was absolutely certain that this phenomenon could be used to transmit unlimited electrical power and telecommunication signals anywhere in ..
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This immediately involves us in a bigger picture question, too--one that's deeply penetrating and personal: why do we desire to heighten our genius and pursue the path of greatness? We
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there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't.
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Andrew Carnegie is thirteen years old and changing spools of thread in a cotton mill twelve hours per day, six days per week. Two years later, he gets a job as a telegraph messenger for $2.50 per week,
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Morgan retaliated with a strategy that would become one of his hallmarks. He spread rumors to Wall Street that Westinghouse's company was financially unstable, which dissuaded investors from giving Westinghouse the capital that he needed to expand the production and installation of his alternating current generators. Morgan then began an attack through stock manipulation, and moved to gain control of The Westinghouse Corporation, and thus T..
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Statistical data shows us that you have to be at least seventy-two inches tall to be allowed on the ride, and each inch you push over that is probably better for you. There comes a point, however, when height just doesn't matter much anymore. Just because someone is seven feet tall doesn't mean he's a better player than
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the opportunities presented to one are just as important to success as one's own inherent talents and willingness to put in thousands of hours of work.
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Studies of people with extraordinary abilities, like Ted Williams, have given rise to what Swedish psychologist Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the "10,000 hour" rule. The rule's premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice. Analyzing the lives of geniuses in a wide range of intellectual, artistic, and athletic pursuits c..
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If you want to learn about one of history's greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drive--drive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Greece and then the mighty Persian Empire--then you want to read this book.
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I also know y'momma hollered at you about the same thing you know I was proud of. Well, they's some truth in the both of us.
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Tesla was never one to chase recognition--he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation.
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one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt.
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whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice.
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Massachusetts's search and seizure provision was the work of John Adams, who had been so strongly moved by Otis's monumental speech nearly twenty years earlier. Through Adams, Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights declared: "Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, i..
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There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others.
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To put that number in perspective, if you practiced an activity four hours per day, seven days per week, it would take you about seven years to reach ten thousand hours. That kind of dedication can only come from the heart--a true love and passion for the activity.
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there is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.
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Edison's efforts then took a turn for the grisly.
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activity. So, what does all this tell us? First, that the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice. Second, that there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't.
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deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.
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declared Tesla as the true "father of radio."
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Author Philip Dick once wrote, "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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Awakening Your Inner Genius today.
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