Sleeping for more than ten hours, not wearing socks … Are these habits the secrets behind being a genius?
Renowned researcher and physicist Nikola Tesla exercises with his toes every night. Author Mark J. Seifer says he was told to ‘squeeze’ each toe 100 times in a row.
We do not know how he did that exercise but Tesla said it helped to stimulate his brain cells.
Paul Erdos, the most successful mathematician of the 20th century, chose a different type of catalyst. It is a drug called amphetamine that stimulates the central nervous system. He used it when wrestling with numbers for 20 hours. Paul’s friend bet $ 500 that he would not be able to use it for a month. Paul won the race. But he blamed his friend for saying, ‘You pushed the math back a month.’
Newton said a lot about the benefits of celibacy. By the time he died in 1727, he had changed our perception of the physical world. We are left with manuscripts of crores of words. But he was a virgin by all means until he died. (Tesla was also a bachelor. He later said that he had fallen in love with a pigeon.)
Many of the world’s greatest scientists are just as surprisingly strange human beings. From Pythagoras’ unequivocal ban on beans to Benjamin Franklin’s nude ‘air baths’, the path to greatness has gone with really strange habits.
It is prudent to dismiss such matters as meaningless. But what if there are deeper elements behind these? Researchers are finding that intelligence is not just genetic luck as we normally think. According to the latest analysis of the evidence, 40 percent of the factors that separate the intellectuals and the dull as adults are related to the environment around us.
Whether you like it or not, our daily habits can have a powerful effect on our brains. Their role is very much in changing the way we think about shaping the structure of the brain.
Albert Einstein is one of the greatest intellectuals in history. Who is the best person to learn the tricks that can be used to stimulate the brain to enhance our intelligence? He taught us how to extract energy from atoms.
He also gives two or three tips on how to get good intelligence from our ephemeral little brains. Are there any benefits to following Einstein’s sleep, diet, and fashion?
Einstein 10 hours of Sleep
It is a well-known fact that sleep is very good for our brain. Einstein took this advice very seriously. He says he sleeps at least 10 hours a day. This is almost 3:30 hours more than the average sleep time (approximately 6.30 hours) of the average Indian today. And can you sleep like this to sharpen your brain?
Many of the most revolutionary discoveries in human history, including the periodic table, the structure of DNA, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, are said to have been struck while unconscious. When Einstein dreamed of cows, he was struck by a unique theory of relativity. Is this true?
In 2004, scientists at the University of Lubeck in Germany made a small experiment on the subject. At first, some volunteers were trained to play the number one game. Many people have learned its trick through practice. But with good credit, you might find exactly what you need. When those students were tested again after eight hours .. those who slept were twice as likely to learn those rules than those who were awake.
These spindle events begin with electrical energy waves generated by rapid firing from deep structures in the brain. The main culprit is the thalamus, an oval area that serves as the main ‘switch center’ in the brain. It works to send the sensory messages that reach it in the right direction.
When we are asleep it acts as an inner earplug. It sends external information in different directions to help us stay asleep. During the spindle event, this wave travels to and from the surface of the brain and completes a vortex.
Those with more spindle events are more likely to have mercury-like intelligence — the ability to solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify construction modes. “These do not seem to be related to other types of intelligence, such as the ability to remember things and numbers. These are especially relevant to logical skills, ”says Fogel.
This analysis fits well with Einstein’s advice to “never try to remember anything you can find in books” and his rejection of traditional education.
However... the more you sleep the more spindle events in your brain so it is not certain that high sleep is beneficial. It’s like the question of whether the chicken is before the egg: some are smarter so do they have more spindle events? Or are they smarter because they have more spindle events? This problem is not yet known.
However, a recent study suggests that sleep at night may improve thinking and problem-solving skills in both women and men during the day. The growth of intelligence in particular is related to the formation of spindle events. They occur only during nighttime sleep in women and during daytime sleepiness in men.
Einstein’s luck was that he often snorted. According to an article in the campaign, he is also said to take care not to fall asleep for too long. That is... Einstein would lie down in a chair with a spoon in one hand and a metal plate right under it. He fell asleep for a second. Meanwhile, the spoon in his hand slipped and fell on the plate underneath and made a thumping noise. With that, he wakes up.
Day wise walk
The daily walk is very sacred to Einstein. He used to walk a mile and a half while working at Princeton University in New Jersey. On the walk, he can be said to have followed in the footsteps of those like Darwin. Darwin also walked 45 minutes three times a day.
Walking is not just for physical fitness — there is ample evidence that memory, creativity, and problem-solving skills increase.
Walking diverts the brain from brain activity and forces it to focus on taking one step after another and not falling. Temporarily reduces stress on certain parts of the brain — especially in the frontal lobes, which are part of higher processes such as memory, determination, and language. This is technically referred to as ‘transient hypofrontality’.
By reducing the activity of the brain to some extent it adopts a completely different way of thinking — it can help to grasp a whole new understanding of nonsense while working in the office. There is no evidence yet for this explanation of the benefits of walking. Still, it’s an attractive idea.
No socks
His list of strange habits is not exhaustive, not to mention the reluctance of Saxon to Einstein. “When I was a kid the big toe always made a hole in the socks. That’s why I don't like to wear socks,” he wrote in a letter to his cousin and later to his wife Elsa. Elsa would wear belt sandals when Einstein did not see his sandals in later times.
But appearing to follow the new fashion did him no good. The sad thing is that there have been no studies specifically on not wearing socks. But tests on abstract thinking (abstract thinking) have shown that there is a link between wearing formal clothing and not being able to excel.
Finally, let us conclude with the advice given by Einstein himself. “The important thing is not to standardize questioning; Curiosity has its reason for survival, ” he told Life Magazine in 1955.
If that doesn’t work, do some exercises with your toes. Who knows — whether they can work. Are you anxious to know?
