YOU THINK YOU ARE NOT A GENIUS? MAYBE YOU SHOULD THINK AGAIN.

Albert Einstein was a genius right? or I should have asked about Isaac Newton. Whatever the case, these two men were really smart. I read through their life stories and realized that their lives were not any different than what we go through today; the only difference is how they decided to treat each of the challenges that came their way. During Einstein's time, there were wars and assassinations as there are today. In fact Adolf Hitler, the German dictator at that time was seriously after the Jewish blood in German and that was why Einstein fled to America.

This man Einstein married two women throughout his life time and you and me will marry one or two women also, or you are married to one spouse or even you won't get married. Isaac newton on the other hand was never married and there are other geniuses who married one woman; this confirms that geniuses don't exist on the world beyond earth, they are me and you. They live amidst us and live exactly like us. 

Before Einstein could shine with his researches on the photoelectric effect or the invention of the refrigerator, he worked as a clerk. Isaac Newton too didn't wake up one morning and find himself shining with integration and differentiation or even the laws of motion, he started somewhere as a boy out of circumstances who didn't get the opportunity to learn smoothly as you and me. This confirms to you that our lives are not any different from those we perceive to be geniuses. Your circumstances might be better or same with theirs and that means you too can be a genius. If you think your circumstances are worse than theirs, think of the many other geniuses you know like Plato, Socrates and Aristotle who pioneered science and philosophy when almost none existed.

What is the difference then?

This is a very crucial question to make you a genius. You can see that their circumstances (geniuses) and life's challenges tally with those of ours, but what about their achievements? They did something different. Most of these men we are talking about went on to think outside their cocoons and boxes, they never sat down to feel contented with whatever situations they found themselves in, instead they decided to make a difference. You too can decide today that you want to make a difference and it must not necessarily be big. A difference exists between 1 and 2 as does between 1 and 100.

Most of the geniuses we know worked overly hard and went ahead to work smart. This means we should stop working hard and simply work harder. We should start thinking properly and do much of the imagination. However, we should not stop at imagining, we should build "mansions" out of those imaginations.

Lastly we should behave as geniuses, live like them, move through lives' challenges as one. Have the attitude of a genius and finally you will be one.

Albert Einstein is thought to be the father of modern physics while Sir Isaac Newton is believed to be the father of science. You too can be a father of something.

Geoffrey Ndege Copyright@2015