Ron White's Ezine
December 20, 2006
Issue 34

I was recently getting my truck washed and as I waited for the attendants to scrub the dirt from my bumper, I was distracted by a man with a powerful water hose in his hands. He was shooting a high pressure water stream at the wheels of another car and the force of the water began to hypnotize me. For a moment it numbed my thought process and I was lost in watching the water ricochet off the rims.

Snap! Boom! Whoooosh!

In an instant, water was EVERYWHERE! The hose that started on the ceiling of the car port had broken midway and a dangling hose was throwing water in all directions. The hose was out of control. It looked like a balloon that was deflating and whirling in every direction.

As I watched a hose twist with vengeance I couldn't help but smile. I realized that only seconds earlier this hose was serving a good purpose and then suddenly when the same energy of water was no longer focused - not only was it useless it was a nuisance and destructive.

Life is very much like this hose. Inside of each living person is incredible force. This force can cure disease, grow ideas, build businesses or make a positive impact on the world. However, for the force inside you and me to be useful it must be focused. Everyday you see unfocused lives just like the snapped hose. These lives are all over the place and lives of frustration and unrealized dreams.

Do not allow yourself to enter the New Year like a snapped hose bouncing back and forth accomplishing nothing. Instead, harness the force inside of you by focusing yourself on just a few key goals. If you set too many goals you will lose focus and fail to harness your energy because it will be scattered on so many ideas. If you set too small of goals they will fail to inspire you and you will be like a hose that was never turned on.

Dream big – but with a narrow focus and you will truly astound yourself at what you are capable of. Your life is like a powerful hose – but for it to be useful you must be focused.

Go for More this Week!
Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. Einstein's Ability to Risk and Willingness to be Wrong by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Accept No Limits by Vic Johnson
4. 2007 Goals!
5. More Information

1. Einstein's Ability to Risk and Willingness to be Wrong by Ron White (Excerpted from How to Develop the Mind of Einstein 6 CD program)

The early life of Einstein gives us some clues to the great man that he would become. He was never one to dominant conversation to prove his intellect. Even as a child he didn't talk much. It has been said that he didn't talk until 3 -- there are conflicting accounts on this. However, what is not conflicting is that it took him a little longer to talk than the average child. But, we must remember that Albert Einstein was far from average.

Einstein's parents hardly coddled their first born. They gave him tremendous freedom to roam and grow. This no doubt had a positive outcome on his development. When he was just four years old, he was allowed to roam the neighborhood alone. Believe it or not his parents even encouraged him to cross the street on his own at this young age. They watched behind the first few times to ensure that he looked both ways, but soon he was on his own doing this.

Now, keep in mind when he was crossing the street he wasn't dodging Fords, Chevrolets, Mercedes or cars with a lot of horse power -- he was dodging only horsepower. In other words, he was dodging horse drawn carriages. But, it was still very dangerous for this young child. In our world today, I would not encourage my four year old to roam the neighborhood alone or even allow him near the street. With that being said, the principles of self-reliance and risk that Einstein's parents implemented in his life are ones that we can perhaps model on a smaller scale. Einstein certainly modeled this behavior with his own son on a smaller scale.

In his late twenties, Einstein moved to Zurich with his first wife, Mileva, and their son. Friedrich Adler was living near Einstein and they became great friends. They would often get together to share ideas. Often times their sons would get rowdy and it would be hard for them to talk. Many parents would barge in and tell their sons to be quiet, that they are having a meeting. Not Adler and Einstein, these great thinkers would climb into the attic to carry on their conversation. They allowed their boys to grow and explore even if it was noisy.

His freedom as a child and the freedom he gave his son was, in part, due to his attitude on failure. He was not afraid to fail. After all, he tackled some of the most perplexing questions of our universe. Many would have shied away from tackling these questions simply because the rate of failure seemed extraordinarily high. However, it is evident that Einstein was not afraid to be wrong or to fail.

When Einstein was 50 years old, reporters were hounding Einstein for an interview during which he was working on a unified field theory. Putting the "unified field theory" into layman's terms, this meant he was working on a theory that would put the entire universe into a mathematical equation, and he had the attention of the world. Reporters parked outside his home in hopes of an interview. Many kept all night vigils waiting for the story. As a rule, Einstein did not chase the spotlight and dodged the requests often. It was the same in this instance as well. He did, however, allow an interview with one reporter from the New York Times. You see the New York Times was edited by Carr Van Anda, and Van Anda had found an error in a previous Einstein's equation. Image that! The editor of the New York Times finding an error in the math of Einstein! Don't you think that Einstein must have been irate that the editor would point this out? He must have been insulted. Actually, on the contrary, Einstein was impressed and that is the reason he allowed an interview to this reporter from the New York Times. You see Einstein was not afraid to be wrong, and when corrected he was not insulted.

At Princeton, Albert Einstein was more like a kindly uncle. When he arrived in 1935, and was asked what he would require for his study, he replied, "A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket - to hold all of my mistakes."

Albert Einstein spent his last two decades trying to reconcile quantum physics with relativity. His holy grail -- a so-called "Unified Field Theory" -- eluded him. He once casually mentioned to a colleague that he was on the verge of his "greatest discovery ever," before admitting that "it didn't pan out" just two weeks later.

One day in his twilight years, he received a letter from a 15-year-old girl asking for help with a homework assignment. She soon received a curious reply: a page full of unintelligible diagrams, along with an attempt at consolation: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics," Einstein told her, "I can assure you that mine are much greater!"

The man who was the greatest success at mathematics also failed a lot at them. But that didn't stop him from moving forward.

Not only was he willing to risk at math, he also risked when he gambled. While attending a physics symposium in Las Vegas one year, Albert Einstein, to the astonishment of many of his sober-minded colleagues, spent a fair amount of time at the craps and roulette tables.

"Einstein is gambling as if there were no tomorrow," an eminent physicist remarked one day. "What troubles me," another replied, "is that he may know something!"

Too often in life, we attempt to spend all our energy demonstrating how we are right instead of accepting constructive criticism and getting better. This is not true of Einstein. Not only was he not afraid of being wrong, he was not afraid of being corrected. Inquire of yourself, ask yourself honestly: How do you respond when you are corrected? Do you lash out or are you grateful?

If you want to develop the mind of Einstein. You must not be afraid to fail and allow yourself the opportunity to fail. Herman Melville put it this way, "He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

Thomas Edison when he was constructing the light bulb built 1,000 prototypes that did not work before he successfully built the one that we still use today and will forever. A reporter asked Edison how it felt to fail 1,000 times. Edison replied, "You miss understand. I did not fail 1,000 times. I successfully found 1,000 ways that the light bulb would not work." Edison like Einstein did not view failure the way so many do. They viewed it as acceptable and a way to learn and grow.

The fear of failure could have paralyzed Einstein and Edison, yet it did not. What about you? Are you so paralyzed with fear that you have settled for mediocrity? Don't allow that to happen. Embrace risk and failure. Learn that it is okay to be wrong, and run headlong into the rewards of risk as Einstein did.

-- Ron White

This article is excerpted from Ron's How to Develop the Mind of Einstein. This week, make sure and check out Ron's Four Great Ways to Start 2007 off Strong - including How to Develop the Mind of Einstein, Memory in a Month, Write It On Your Heart and Speed Reading. It's a Special offer good for a limited time. To learn more or to order visit http://memory.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.

 

2. Quotes of The Week

Unleashing Your Genius

"Each man had only one genuine vocation -- to find the way to himself... His task was to discover his own destiny -- not an arbitrary one -- and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity, and fear of one's own inwardness." -- Hermann Hesse

"Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity and from depression to happiness and joy -- if you use it properly." -- Brian Tracy

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein

"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you if you listen to it, you can play it." -- Nido Qubein

"All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself – you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the STRENGTH and capabilities inside you." -- Paul Meyer

"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it." -- Elbert Hubbard

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity." -- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"To see things in the seed, that is genius." -- Lao-Tzu

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein

"Stop going with the flow in our life. Start your own river instead." -- Dr Phil, Phillip C. McGraw

"Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." -- Arthur Koestler

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." -- Malcolm Cowley

"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it." -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael




3. Accept No Limits by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)

"A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses." - James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

You are not limited to the life you now live. It has been accepted by you as the best you can do at this moment. Any time you're ready to go beyond the limitations currently in your life, you're capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts.

We each earn the income we do today because that is the amount we have limited ourselves to earn. We could easily earn 5, 10, 20 times more if we did not limit ourselves through the thoughts we maintain.

Don't believe that's true? Surely you know people who earn much more than you who don't have your education, your skills, or your intelligence. So why do they earn more than you?

I love the story of George Dantzig that Cynthia Kersey wrote about in Unstoppable. As a college student, George studied very hard and always late into the night. So late that he overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for class. He quickly copied the two math problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him several days to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on the professor's desk the next day.

Later, on a Sunday morning, George was awakened at 6 a.m. by his excited professor. Since George was late for class, he hadn't heard the professor announce that the two unsolvable equations on the board were mathematical mind teasers that even Einstein hadn't been able to answer. But George Dantzig, working without any thoughts of limitation, had solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for thousands of years.

Simply put, George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't.

Bob Proctor tells us to "keep reminding yourself that you have tremendous reservoirs of potential within you, and therefore you are quite capable of doing anything you set your mind to. All you must do is figure out how you can do it, not whether or not you can. And once you have made your mind up to do it, it's amazing how your mind begins to figure out how."

And that's worth thinking about.

Vic Johnson


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And remember, Always Go For More!

Ron White




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