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July 31, 2009
The holy surprise of a child's fresh look.
He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the universe, the locksmith of mysteries of the atom and the universe.
--from Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster, 2007) by the Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson, a former Time managing editor.
WAC? is interested in serious overachievers, past and present: identifying them, learning from them, having them as friends, hiring them and, above all, never holding them back. Few of us can have Albert Einstein's talent for Western logic, or IQ. But Einstein's advantage over other physicists may have been that he was a "new soul"; he looked at everything as if he were seeing it for the first time.
Work. He approached it from a wellspring of joy. There are others like him in that respect. Those are the kind of people I want as friends to inspire me, and as co-workers to solve clients' problems. I'll take an IQ a lot lower than Einstein's (for associates, though, Coif or Law Review would be nice).
Reverence and a child's awe. That's the outlook I prize. Energy, intensity and creativity always seem to come with it.
(from a past JDH post)
Posted by JD Hull at July 31, 2009 12:29 AM