Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to his family after he could not find a job after his graduation in 1900.
He was contemplating changing his field & selling insurance instead. He was a daydreamer right through college, dreaming equations most of the time. As a teenager, he used to imagine what it would be riding a beam of light. His professors considered him useless.
His father tried hard to help him get his first job but in vain. His father passed away thinking his son was a big failure.
Finally, after 2 years of struggle, picking up small-time jobs as a teacher, Einstein picked up his first job as a clerk, his job was to review applications for patents.
He continued to daydream & play with ideas/equations in his spare time along with his 6 days a week job. After 3 years he published 4 papers in 1905
1. What is light
2. Existence of atoms
3. E= MC^2
4. Theory of relativity
The last paper was an idea he got while sitting in a bus staring at the clock tower, imagining himself moving at the speed of light.
He finally rode the beam of light:)
Are you feeling stuck?
Are you moving from thinking to doing?
