The principles of work of a scientist ahead of his time.
Tesla could practically not sleep, and at the same time his productivity did not fall. The fact that his approach to work is truly a model of efficiency is eloquently indicated by the long list of inventions that we successfully use to this day.
Details
Tesla believed that one should not begin to implement an idea until the project has been thought out to the smallest detail. This does not mean at all that you need to get hung up on the little things, bringing the form to perfection. But the basic principles must be well thought out.
Imagine that you are a practical physicist working on a new invention or testing a theory. Immediately you will become more attentive and will calculate your actions several steps ahead. Still, physics is a serious science. Why should things be different with your project? Why launch something that is only thought out in general terms? Practice will tell you the rest?
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Intuition
Tesla believed that a person's natural sensitivity to the space around him plays a very important role. It's just that in the age of technology, we forgot about it, stopped listening to the inner voice.
Of course, in his experiments, the scientist relied solely on proven facts and data. But his intuition told him how successful the invention would be and what else needed to be corrected in order for everything to fall into place.
When you are thinking about something new or working on something that you have been assigned, do you listen to your inner voice? After all, part of our intuition is accumulated experience. All the knowledge gained remains in us, although we cannot always mentally get to it. In moments of intense tension, they break out of our subconscious and tell us the right path.
Will
After reading the novel "Son of Aba" Nikola Tesla decided to train his willpower. At first, these were simple actions. For example, if he had something tasty that he wanted to eat, he would give it to someone else. Tesla went through an addiction to gambling, smoking and coffee. As a result, over the years, the contradictions between desires and will smoothed out, and he came to harmony with the world around him.
Concentration
Get up at three in the morning and study until late seven days a week. Constant work on yourself and no empty doubts - since the idea came to mind, it means that you need to check it, even if your physics teacher is sure of the opposite. This is how Tesla's electric motor was born.
Physical strength
We are talking about Mr. Szigeti, who, according to the scientist, possessed phenomenal strength. Thanks to him, Nikola Tesla maintained excellent physical shape, which ultimately gave him a fairly long life (86 years) and health, despite the fact that in childhood he was on the verge of death three times. As you can see from the above quote, the scientist believed that a person's confidence, his mental strength and physical form are inextricably linked.
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On the one hand, there is nothing fundamentally new in this list - just a repetition of what personal growth coaches and other successful people are now saying from all sides. But the example of Nikola Tesla and his achievements are so amazing that you involuntarily begin to wonder how ineptly we spend the opportunities and time presented to us.
This person simply saw the goal and moved towards it, ignoring the rules and questioning the statements of the professors. He knew that the main ingredients for success are hard work, constant self-improvement, willpower and intuition. An amazing combination of a cold mind with periodic emotional outbursts, expressed in acrobatic somersaults and recitation of verses with insights at the end. Incredible experiences and emotions controlled by the same incredible willpower. Visions and mysticism mingled with precise mathematical and physical calculations. After that, the impossible no longer seems so impossible.