Genius

An interesting read of what it takes to become a "genius" ... simple practice and hard work!! and this picture an ability to make the right "connections"

Novice Mind	Expert Mind	Genius Mind

Some interesting quotes..

"Success doesn't have much to do with talent. It's almost always a product of hard work and the culture of which we live our lives." - Malcolm Gladwell

"Perspective is the key to genius."

"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."

Galileo's words -- "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Insights are often so simple, so obviously true once you see them. But we are often blinded by our fixations, our hubris, our limited frames of reference -- our narrow perspectives -- which prevent us from seeing"

"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!" - Richard Feynman

http://jamesthornton.com/blog/how-to-get-to-genius