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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af11a48 | Your mind has an incredible ability to cross-pollinate--that is, to connect disparate things to solve problems in unique ways or envision new creations. Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed helped him connect ideas in very different ways. | Sean Patrick | ||
| f7ea251 | Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 4c4a0b5 | 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." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 3a2bcbd | Imagination is the life force of the genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks our potential for understanding and ability. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 9bd2b17 | As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by history's most imaginative minds. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7d8f51a | genius code: curiosity. 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. | Sean Patrick | ||
| eef7949 | The interesting person doesn't really listen to what you think or how you feel and can't wait to jump in and give his point of view. The interested person finds your opinion, though different from his, important and allows you to express it. | Sean Patrick | ||
| e6c4a24 | James Clerk Maxwell had proven mathematically that light was electromagnetic radiation--electricity that was vibrating at an extremely high frequency. | Sean Patrick | ||
| c995531 | If you've ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to improve one small aspect of it, then you have an adventure waiting. Will you take it? | Sean Patrick | ||
| e0e603e | Well, I believe there are very practical answers to what makes a genius tick. I believe there are principles that we can isolate and use to better our own lives. I believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or divine gift. Ultimately, this is the path to greatness. | Sean Patrick | ||
| e221cf2 | This brings us back to the beginning of the genius code: curiosity. 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 piece.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 27a9a11 | illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 8c16a35 | We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?" | Sean Patrick | ||
| e24e880 | 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." | Sean Patrick | ||
| dc7c40a | Alexander's adamantine will and belief in himself stemmed from the fact that he was willing to out-plan, out-work, and outlast anyone. He didn't chase dubious shortcuts, and in some cases, purposely avoided them just to experience the glory of overcoming a great challenge. He didn't beg for the favor of the gods; he strove to overawe them. | Sean Patrick | ||
| ed7c8c5 | Don't confuse creativity and imagination with "thinking" either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune." | Sean Patrick | ||
| e8e97c4 | It takes a special strength to be willing to scrap the life that others have planned for us--safe, beaten trails walked by millions--and embrace one fraught with uncertainty, danger, and the unknown. | Sean Patrick | ||
| ebb6e07 | We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living?" | Sean Patrick | ||
| a884d9f | The philosopher Edmund Burke said "there is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." Imagination is the life force of the genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks our potential for understanding and" -- | Sean Patrick | ||
| a2af208 | Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0a7aa2e | imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement--as a mysterious | Sean Patrick | ||
| 6f5f749 | But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 4005890 | In 1891, in his New York City lab, Tesla proved that energy could be transmitted through the air by wirelessly lighting lamps. This discovery fascinated Tesla, sparking his lifelong obsession with wireless energy. He immediately envisioned a network of transmission stations that would provide free, wireless energy to not only the United States, but the world. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2150b82 | to a person with | Sean Patrick | ||
| 3ba4f0c | This character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis of very specific types of worldviews and behaviors. The more he looked at data through this lens, the more things started to make sense. Barrios | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5fc512d | York City attorney--in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work, | Sean Patrick | ||
| 6231ed0 | Psychologist Dr. Alfred Barrios conducted research on the nature of genius in the seventies. He set out to answer the same basic question I posed just a page ago: why do some people rise to greatness whereas others don't? To | Sean Patrick | ||
| 78a694b | that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas. | Sean Patrick | ||
| bcec1f7 | 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 it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you. | Sean Patrick | ||
| d7016a7 | In 1898, Tesla announced his latest invention: a way to remotely control machines with radio technology. Skepticism was widely expressed and quickly diffused thanks to his Madison Square Garden demonstration of remotely driving a small metal boat through an indoor pond. Many spectators believed that he was | Sean Patrick | ||
| 94a806b | magnate | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0751369 | along with his ticket, passport, and luggage, Tesla still managed to make it aboard the steamship. A mutiny broke out during the voyage, and he got caught in the middle of a battle royale between crewmates. Tesla was arrested, pleaded innocence, and was released, and finally arrived to New York City on June 6, 1884. He had nothing but a few cents in his pocket, a few poems, calculations for a flying machine he dreamed of building one day, a.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 40a5536 | creativity is a process, not a providence. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 514d128 | Sean: 'People stop giving a shit about what you do with your life after college,' Leon: 'I'm pretty sure nobody gave a shit about it while you were in college. | Patrick Anderson Jr. | ||
| ca6c3f4 | believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7793dd5 | Hudson, a British psychologist that headed up Cambridge's Research Unit of Intellectual Development in the sixties, compared IQ to basketball. If you're five foot five, your prospects of becoming even an NBA bench warmer are slim-to-none. The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James in his court. Statistical data shows us that you have to be at least seventy-two inches t.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 210a912 | the treatment of sewage with a chemical called carbolic acid reduced the incidence of disease among the people and cattle of a nearby small English town. Lister follows the lead and, in 1865, develops a successful method of applying carbolic acid to wounds to prevent infection. He continues to work along this line and establishes antisepsis as a basic principle of surgery. Thanks to his discoveries and innovations, amputations become less f.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0634418 | We rely on geniuses to entertain us, educate us, lead us, and show us all what our species is capable of. We rely on geniuses to give us smart phones, electric cars, cures for diseases, social networking sites, sublime art, world-class food, and, indeed, the very fabric of our culture. | Sean Patrick | ||
| f395d39 | Their voices lack the thrust and dip of men chewing over their words and tasting them. They | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 0748091 | In the same year, it was announced that Tesla and Edison were potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915. Both men refused to accept the award together, or separately if the other were to receive it first. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0936ad1 | When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts," Tesla promised." | Sean Patrick | ||
| b0bbc7e | 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. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0efdecc | The philosopher Edmund Burke said "there is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." Imagination is the life force of the genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks our potential for understanding and ability. It's no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for t.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 1173bd6 | 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. | Sean Patrick |