Genius means that we must be more about hard work than wishing to be someone. Even if we are not truely genius, we can use the same strategies as Da Vinci or Einstein to harness our creative mind and encourage ourselves to think productively. Looking at problems in many different ways, and finding new perspectives that no one else has taken. Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt that the first way he looked at a problem was too biased. Often, the problem itself is reconstructed and becomes a new one. When Einstein thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate his subject in as many different ways as possible, but most important was visualizing the issue. So these become the first traits of genius, rethinking and visualization.
Another distinguishing characteristic of genius is productivity. Picasso made more than 500 preparatory drawings for “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. Thomas Edison held about 1,093 patents, he gave himself idea quotas. Alfred Hitchcock had a penchant for planning the entire movie before the first day of filming. Another thing these three had in common is they weren’t afraid to “fail”, or to produce mediocre work in order to arrive at excellence. Whenever we attempt to do something and “fail”, we create a new branch of possible success. That’s the first principle of creative accident. Even when people set out to act purposefully and rationally, they wind up doing things they did not intend. Failure itself can be productive.
The laws of heredity on which genetics is based came from the Austrian monk Grego Mendel, who combined mathematics and biology to create a new science. Alexander McQueen had a tendency to juxtapose female strength with fragility in his collections. Physicist Niels Bohr believed, that if you held opposites together, then you suspend your thought, and your mind moves to a new level. His ability to imagine light as both a particle and a wave led to his conception of the principle of complementarity. Also, Aristotle considered metaphor a sign of genius, and believed that the individual who had the capacity to perceive resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them together was a person of special gifts. Combine and recombine ideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations no matter how incongruent or strange they may be.
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