From his childhood and his growing experience, this paper summarizes why Tesla was so capable in five points.
1, gene
Tesla said that his invention talent comes more from his mother, who is very good at inventing and making various household hand tools and equipment. However, Tesla actually has a brother, a genius, with extraordinary talent. Maybe he was jealous of talent and died prematurely. "My brother is really good. No matter how hard I try, I look like a firefly in front of him. " If his brother isn't dead, maybe it's a combination of two swords. It only means that genes are good and children are smart people.
2. Father's practice
Tesla's father is a priest, well-read, natural philosopher, poet and writer. His memory is amazing, and he often recites classic works in different languages. He once joked that if some classic works were out of print, he could write them all down from memory. His writing style is concise and lively, but profound and sharp.
Later, Tesla went further and could recite the whole book word for word. Especially when he invented alternating current, he walked in the park with his friends and recited Goethe's Faust while walking. While reciting the glorious chapter, a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and he thought of a solution to the problem, so alternating current was born. Of course, this will not happen overnight. Tesla has been thinking about alternating current for several years.
Although my creativity comes more from my mother's inheritance and influence, I can't do without my father's various trainings and trainings. This kind of training is varied, such as guessing other people's thoughts, finding out other people's appearance or speech problems, repeating lengthy sentences and doing mental arithmetic. My father trained me to exercise my memory, enhance my reasoning ability, and especially improve my analytical judgment ability. There is no doubt that my future achievements will largely benefit from these trainings.
3. hallucinations, strange and painful experiences, and the birth of visualization ability.
This passage is very important. Tesla gained a super power after this experience, which also laid a solid and different foundation for the road of invention in the future.
For a while, there will be some pictures and scenes in front of my eyes, sometimes accompanied by strong flashes. At this time, my vision became blurred, and my thoughts and behaviors were greatly disturbed. The scenes that often appear in front of my eyes are not my own subjective fantasies, but what I really see. But when I listen to someone say a word, I will clearly see the scene that the word refers to, so that sometimes I can't judge whether what appears in front of me is real or illusion.
During this period, the young Tesla may have been strongly stimulated by the image. As he said, if he attended the funeral or saw other exciting scenes, the pain would be crushed. This kind of picture is lifelike. The images imagined or recalled in ordinary people's minds are very vague, with a layer of fog, or just some black and white illusions. Tesla's picture pixels may be high definition or even blue light level. The key is that this picture is still difficult to eliminate, forming a compulsive thinking. The more I don't want to think, the more I will think. This picture can't be dispelled anyway. Think about it, how painful it is to think that the horror picture of HD has always been in my mind, and the quality of HD has always been accompanied like a movie. Perhaps obsessive-compulsive disorder with depression is the most painful mental illness.
Children are really advised not to watch any horror movies or attend funerals. My nephew was scared when he was a child, and I also left a psychological shadow when I was a child. Psychological maintenance of children is really important.
Finally, in order to divert attention, Tesla thought of a way.
This frequent sight makes me very painful. In order to get rid of this pain, I try to divert my attention and think about other things I have seen. This method can temporarily relieve my pain, but only if I keep imagining new scenes in my mind.
Tesla replaced the painful scene in his mind with other scenes, which had some effect at first, but he had to keep imagining new scenes in his mind. Later, I felt that the scene was in a hurry and the circle was too small, so I went out of my own small world and looked for a new scene. I just keep thinking and practicing compulsively. At first, the new scene was vague and difficult to identify, but then it gradually became clear, and the graphics in my mind seemed to be objects. Later, he began to enjoy the roaming of this idea.
Whenever I am alone, often at night, sometimes during the day, I start my journey. I visited new places, came to new countries and regions, lived in different cities, learned about local life and made new friends. In fact, you may not believe it, but I know that they are friendly, and getting along with them is just like dealing with people in real life. Their voices and smiles are so kind that they are no different from real people.
Finally, every dark cloud has a glimmer of hope to die, so happiness and misfortune are interdependent. This superb imagination simulation exercise in his mind enabled him to overcome the source of mental pain before, and also cultivated his observation ability in his constant brain power, laying a solid foundation for his future inventions. It's a bug-level ability. The ability to be reborn from the fire.
/kloc-I lived like this until I was 0/7 years old; /kloc-after 0/7 years old, I devoted all my energy to invention and creation. At that time, I was very happy, because I found that my extremely clever imagination had its place-I didn't need models, drawings or experiments at all, I just needed my imagination to see all the details clearly in my mind, just like the real thing. So I think, compared with the previous pure experimental theory, I have found a brand-new idea and idea of invention, and I even think my idea and method are more convenient and effective.
4. Study hard
Reading makes people wise, and reading can cure diseases.
Tesla likes reading very much. His father has a small library. Tesla often sneaks in to study because his father won't let him read more. This is really weird. Both parents hope that he can follow in his father's footsteps and become a priest, and Tesla wants to be an engineer since he was a child.
After a while, Tesla became ill again, and he was so sick that the doctors gave him up. But he continued to borrow books from the local library and became a librarian, working in the library to help classify books and edit the book catalogue. Reading Mark Twain's early works at this time brought him pleasure and made his body miraculously recover. Twenty-five years later, Tesla told Mark Twain about it, which moved Mark Twain to tears. Reading good books can make people feel happy and cure diseases.
Later, Tesla got malaria again and stayed in bed for nine months, exhausted and dying. His father comforted him that as long as he could get better and study his favorite engineering course, he would not have to inherit his father's career. Tesla miraculously recovered and went to college. In order to repay my parents and study hard, I study from 3 am to 1 1 every afternoon, and there are no sundays and weekends. Outstanding achievements, far ahead. This is a typical schoolmaster. Even the professor can't stand this desperate state. Write to his father and take him away for a while, otherwise he will die of overwork. During this period, Tesla studied several languages and read books in several libraries.
5. Self-discipline
Tesla began to exercise self-discipline after reading a book.
When I was seven or eight years old, I read a novel-the Serbian translation of Afei by Hungarian writer Josika. After reading this book, the idea of controlling desire came to my mind, and I began to exercise strict self-discipline. If there is a delicious cake or a delicious apple in front of me, even if I really want to eat it, I will give it to other friends and then enjoy the suffering painfully and contentedly. If I encounter a difficult task, I will continue to work hard until I finish it.
Later, Tesla also got into bad habits, such as gambling and smoking. Later, through strong self-discipline, I got rid of this bad habit and got rid of it from my heart.
This kind of self-discipline exercise made Tesla force himself to stick to it, so he did it from beginning to end. I like to read Voltaire's thick and voluminous books. If I don't want to read them, let him read them, and finally finish them patiently.