The Einstein Factor
"Geniuses are little more than ordinary people who have stumbled on a knack for widening their channel of attention." Win Wenger
Many of the world’s great geniuses were actually not as “smart” as you'd think. Rather, they were tricky. Let me explain. Scientists and doctors think that that your subconscious brain has 100% memory retention. In other words, you remember everything. It’s just that you don’t know how to access it. For most of us, there’s a thick wall between the conscious and subconscious mind. However, the genius has found or created cracks in the wall. In some cases, they are small cracks allowing a small trickle of brilliance. In other cases, they are large cracks unleashing a torrent...
-Spotting giant cracks in the wall, Mozart would see the entire composition all at once rather than note by note. He recalled, “Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them as it were, all at once. What a delight this is I cannot tell!”
-Einstein used wind to propel him up and over the wall. He’d go sailing and when the wind stopped, Einstein would pick up his notebook and journal. The second the wind picked up, he’d put down his notebook and continue sailing.
-Friedrich Kekule utilized dreaming to circumvent the wall. When frustrated trying to understand the benzene molecule, one time Kekule fell asleep in despair. In a brief moment of dreaming, he saw creatures moving like snakes and suddenly one of the snakes seized its own tail whirling around before his eyes. Kekule quickly awoke, his subconscious mind having given him the key to the structure of benzene: a closed ring formed of six atoms!
Upon making these discoveries, these geniuses were not surrounded by stacks of books. They found cracks in the wall. These cracks exist in every human mind. What’s important is to begin surveying the surface between conscious and subconscious. How do you do this? Music, deep relaxation, yoga, whatever helps you relax and release your grip on life. “Great geniuses routinely disengage from rules of ordinary perception that most of us think unbreakable, playing havoc with commonplace notions of time, space and form.” **
Many of the world’s great geniuses were actually not as “smart” as you'd think. Rather, they were tricky. Let me explain. Scientists and doctors think that that your subconscious brain has 100% memory retention. In other words, you remember everything. It’s just that you don’t know how to access it. For most of us, there’s a thick wall between the conscious and subconscious mind. However, the genius has found or created cracks in the wall. In some cases, they are small cracks allowing a small trickle of brilliance. In other cases, they are large cracks unleashing a torrent...
-Spotting giant cracks in the wall, Mozart would see the entire composition all at once rather than note by note. He recalled, “Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them as it were, all at once. What a delight this is I cannot tell!”
-Einstein used wind to propel him up and over the wall. He’d go sailing and when the wind stopped, Einstein would pick up his notebook and journal. The second the wind picked up, he’d put down his notebook and continue sailing.
-Friedrich Kekule utilized dreaming to circumvent the wall. When frustrated trying to understand the benzene molecule, one time Kekule fell asleep in despair. In a brief moment of dreaming, he saw creatures moving like snakes and suddenly one of the snakes seized its own tail whirling around before his eyes. Kekule quickly awoke, his subconscious mind having given him the key to the structure of benzene: a closed ring formed of six atoms!
Upon making these discoveries, these geniuses were not surrounded by stacks of books. They found cracks in the wall. These cracks exist in every human mind. What’s important is to begin surveying the surface between conscious and subconscious. How do you do this? Music, deep relaxation, yoga, whatever helps you relax and release your grip on life. “Great geniuses routinely disengage from rules of ordinary perception that most of us think unbreakable, playing havoc with commonplace notions of time, space and form.” **
- Hand It Over Keb' Mo'
- Heading Home Donavon Frankenreiter
- That's That S*** Snoop Dogg
- Say It Right Nelly Furtado
- Even Better Than the Real Thing U2
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears
- Midnight Rider (Live Fillmore East 1971) Duane Allman & The Allman Brothers Band
- Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
- Lawyers, Guns and Money Warren Zevon
- Questions Jack Johnson
- Attics Of My Life Grateful Dead
- Can I Sleep In Your Arms? Willie Nelson
- Morning Song Jewel
** all facts and quotes from THE EINSTEIN FACTOR by Win Wenger and Richard Poe
posted by David Romanelli @ 4:38 AM
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