The Secret to Learning Anything: Albert Einstein’s Advice to His Son
by Howard
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Monday, 02 February 2015
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Published in Bookshelf, Community, Competency, Continuous Improvement, Fulfillment, Lifelong Learning, Meaning
by Maria Popova- from the Book “Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children” :
In 1915, aged 36, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international celebrity and historical glory, his theory of general relativity, Einstein sent 11-year-old Hans Albert the following letter, found in Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children (public library) — the same wonderful anthology that gave us some of history’s greatest motherly advice, Benjamin Rush’s wisdom on travel and life, and Sherwood Anderson’s counsel on the creative life. Einstein, who takes palpable pride in his intellectual accomplishments, speaks to the rhythms of creative absorption as the fuel for the internal engine of learning:
read the Letter and more about the Book here
