Just a slither of ones life potential!

"In 1900, a 21-year-old Albert Einstein graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. Einstein had travelled to Switzerland to enrol in college shortly after renouncing his German citizenship at the age of 17. He had left Germany because his pacifism was profoundly in conflict with his homelands imperialistic and increasingly militant views. This began his 'on again, off again' relationship with Germany, a situation that continued for the rest of his life."

"Throughout college, although talented in physics and mathematics, a highly disengaged Einstein would often not attend class . In those lessons where he did show up, he would tune out and be seen to be daydreaming. He felt his professors were teaching old science and that simple retaining facts did little to enhance a students intelligence. Instead, Einstein would sit and ponder questions of physics that he felt were more pressing. These included 'How does light travel through space? and 'What would happen if a person travelled at the speed of light?'. Even at a young age, Einstein was fiercely independent intellectually and guided by his own curiosity. He would later remark, 'We came out of college knowing everything about the history of science, but nothing of the future.'"

"Einsteins professors would often mistake his boredom for laziness. As a result, when he graduated from college, he was unable to get any letters of recommendation from his teachers, who believed he would never amount to anything. In the years that followed, he applied for countless teaching jobs and academic roles in high schools and colleges across Switzerland. Due to the lack of references, he was turned away from every major job he applied for, forcing him to take part-time jobs as a means of simply earning a living. In essence, for much of Einsteins early life, he was ridiculed, outcast and turned away by the academic world because his imagination and thought processes were different. His ideas were so unfamiliar to the establishment that they would discount his contributions and label him unintelligent."

"At one point, "He was young man who was no longer a citizen of his home country, a scholar who had been ridiculed and belittled by his professors throughout high school and university, a father to an illegitimate daughter who lived a life too short, a son who had been ostracised and branded a failure by his family, and an unemployed physicist who was completely rejected by the professional world of academia for his perceived lack of intellectual ability."

"His father died believing Albert was indeed a failure."

- quoted from the Novel; 'Unwritten' by Jack Delosa. Reinvent tomorrow....

"Its often these 'square pegs' who demonstrated the most independence of thought and have the potential to contribute something truly unique..."

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