Smart People Don’t Rush Things — They Quietly Do These Things Instead
“It is not that I’m so smart” Albert Einstein once said. “But I stay with the questions much longer”
Albert Einstein was once asked — If you only had one hour left to save the world, what you do to save it? To which he replied:
“If I only had one hour to save the world, I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution”
Now, I’m not saying that this is the best approach by any means because I would probably begin to panic and doubt the man’s judgement if I was nervously watching the clock ticking down while the world was crumbling down all the while he was contemplating his next move. However, it does say a lot about how he solved some of the most mind-bending and mysterious questions the universe could throw at him. So, there’s a lot to say for it.
What else can we learn from his approach?
- Don’t rush the process
- Think slow, act fast
So, let’s unpack each one individually a little more, shall we?
“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself” — Albert Einstein
