Saturday, September 1, 2007

Explore and realise your potential

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If you have ever been dubbed dull, you are in illustrious company. Albert Einstein was so slow-minded that his father feared he might be feeble-minded. Thomas Alva Edison’s teacher complained that he couldn’t keep up with his classmates. Since then historians have said of Edison. “His brain had the highest cash value in history.”

What have the late Thomas Edison and the late Albert Einstein to do with you? They were brighter than their elders first thought! There are late bloomers. There are dazzling dunces. Many intelligent men and women underestimate their own intelligence. There is a very good reason for this.

According to Professor J.P. Guillord of the University of Southern California, about forty mental dimensions or factors have so far been mapped out. Among them are: judgement, foresight, ability to visualise, to express ideas verbally, and to comprehend what is said. Any one is aware of the fact that he doesn’t shine in all forty or more mental factors. He finds some intellectual tasks difficult. For instance, a person may write good English. But when he tries to figure out his sums, he is confused.

Another man who is excellent at mathematics, but his mind goes completely blank if he’s asked to say a few words about any subject. He does not know how to communicate his ideas. Often, you are so worried about the fact that there are two or three intellectual tasks you cannot handle well that you forget that there may be thirty-seven or thirty-eight mental dimensions in which you can shine. Even the mediocre man is brighter than he is usually given credit for being.

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