Did he ever had to cope with such situations?
Did he have weird reactions?
2007-05-20 07:34:56 · 5 answers · asked by Gokcer 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
He was so deep in thoughts, didn't he ever get obsessed with questions he couldn't answer at the time of thinking, but knowing he would definitely answer them.
2007-05-23 02:58:41 · update #1
I would say he was to smart to care about what others thought.
2007-05-21 01:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Kismitt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein had an unusual personality, especially given that he was a Jew in Europe, just as anti-Semitism was on the unbounded rise in the lead up to WWII: he didn't worry about what other people thought.
One of the reasons he was working as a patent officer rather than as a professor, was because he really didn't act the way professors were "supposed to act" in order to get a job. And even though he wasn't associated with any university, and didn't have his doctorate yet, he wrote and published some of his most famous physics papers (1905, I think) while working at the patent office.
Einstein had a girl friend that he eventually married, even though his parents hated the idea.
And all the way through, Einstein had friends that he could bounce his ideas off of, and who thought he was fun to be around. He stayed in touch with his best friends from his youth throughout most of his life (some, throughout his whole life). So he wasn't isolated.
His parents pushed him to stop seeing the woman he married, but he rolled with that. And he didn't marry her until his father gave him permission, just when his father was dying!
People who are very intelligent, gifted in exceptional ways, have as many different personality styles as people who aren't. And in fact, if you look at a hundred "average" intelligence people, compared to a hundred "exceptionally" intelligent people, the range of personality styles will be much broader amongst the exceptionally intelligent people. The more things you can think about, focus on, consider, the broader the variety of ways you might react to the world around you.
Check out the website SENGifted.org to see a bit of what kind of work is going on today in dealing with the emotional needs of the gifted.
One of the things that made Einstein so successful, was that even though he was brilliant, he never seemed particularly susceptible to outside pressures, and he seemed to find internal pressures exhilarating. I think there are actually a number of people at least as brilliant as Einstein. But very few brilliant people can be so comfortable in their own skin, even when things are really going wrong around them. Einstein was "the wrong religion" according to his society, had "the wrong girl friend" according to his parents, and had "the wrong attitude" according to the university he attended. And none of that ever really seemed to bother him much.
2007-05-26 16:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by nojunk_9 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He ended up doing movies with the three stooges.
2007-05-20 07:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by jsardi56 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hes just one guy that had lots of nothing to do...
2007-05-27 09:49:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kinyua J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard he had a good sense of humor.
2007-05-20 08:24:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋