What makes a person become smart?

Question

how did einstein become smart if in his childhood he showed no sign of being any smarter than regular kids.

Answer 1

"Being smart" is difficult to define (and becoming smart is just as difficult to define, therefore even harder to create a recipe for it).

To show smartness, you need a few elements:

1. Knowledge. You have to know things. You need basic information that you can process later (see other steps).

2. Comprehension (or understanding): you have to understand what the knowledge is and how it can be used. For example, you can learn all kinds of information regarding a star (mass, temperature, density, size, etc.) but you have to understand what each one means.

3. Operations: You have to be able to relate one item of information to another. For example, if you are given the exact color of the peak emission of a star, you should be able to calculate its surface temperature.

You need knowledge about color (e.g., wavelength of light) and knowledge about a formula called Wein's displacement law. You need to understand how the equation is applied. Once you have that, it is a simple "operation". The trick is to get the correct data and the proper formula.

4. Strategies: the capacity to string operations together, to get from the question to the answer. To expand on the above: let us say I give you the peak emission wavelength (i.e., the color temperature of a star), the magnitude of the star (how luminous it appears) and its distance from us, you should be able, after a few operations, to determine the diameter oft he star.
The trick is to get the data, understand what it means, find the required operations and do them in the proper order.

5. Speed. A person who performs these tasks with apparent facility is said to be smarter than a person who struggles through. Speed can come from having a "better brain" (whatever that means) and from practicing. There was a time, long ago, where I could do powers and roots in my head because I had memorized enough data (precalculated squares, logs and roots) and developed some suitable operations (shortcuts).

Everything came very easily to Einstein... after he had read hundreds of papers on the topic, after he had understood what these meant, after he had practiced with quite a few operations (Maxwell's equations, Lorentz transformation...), and was able to string them together in the right order.

After that, all he had to do is provide the key idea (what if we lived in a universe where nothing can go faster than the speed of light?) and write it out for others to understand.

Piece of cake.


OK, it might have been a little harder for you or me, but the idea is the same. Learn stuff, understand what you learn. Try to use it in as many ways as you can, then try to create new data with the stuff you know.

Practice a lot (which is a good reason to do it with something you like, if you can).

Answer 2

Einstein actually was "smart" in a way, because he always asked his teachers and classmates questions about nature. The only reason he seemed not so smart was because his teachers got really annoyed and gave him bad grades all the time.

Answer 3

Einstein was dyslexic at least that's what was discovered when they dissected his brain, so being smart isn't always about genetics, a lot of it is a persons diet(brain food) or the environment they were raised in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain

Answer 4

Einstein just wasn't a shiner at school subjects. But that could have been because his mind was elsewhere.

The vast majority of people need schooling in order to succeed.

Geniuses need very little schooling to succeed.

If you aint born with it, you have to work very hard, like the rest of us.

It's tough, and then you die.

Answer 5

interest with regard to the international is between the aspects. teenagers that ask "Why? what's that? Why?" are discovering. journey does additionally help,, field journeys to make certain for my section what issues are desire to boot merely analyzing approximately them,, to zoos, planetariums, museums. My mom used to purchase books that are crammed with 'techniques teasers', that are crammed with problems to resolve that fairly call on skillful deductions and logical questioning. Getting an SAT learn e book from the e book shop has sturdy vocabulary increasing sections, analyzing comprehension exercizes and stuff. analyzing classics is likewise helpful for vocabulary and grammar prepare,, greater moderen books tend to have very constrained vocabulary. a good number of what's seen 'smartness' or intelligence is familiarity with the biggest flow American or English conversing subculture. human beings from different cultures and languages tend to be at a disadvantage. portion of it particularly is memory and how nicely we remember and can repeat what a instructor has stated or presented, no remember if it particularly is right or incorrect. portion of it particularly is being innovative and being waiting to take what's presented, and picture with regard to the type to construct on it. We each and each have 'smarts' in some aspects greater advantageous than in others. One stated 'highway smarts' it particularly is what we learn in our each and on a daily basis lives that isn't be chanced on interior the biggest flow subculture's text cloth books, notwithstanding it helps you get by utilising on your existence. e book discovering and smarts is in many situations psychological, and can propose you be attentive to a good number of issues that would or might no longer be ideal or sensible in each and on a daily basis existence. while somebody says,, "S/he's tremendously smart.", it potential that that individual catches on, is familiar with, and responds properly.

Answer 6

The will to learn the difference between being smart and being intellectually challenged!

Answer 7

the true meaning of the word smart is being able to learn from your mistakes.

Answer 8

smartness

Answer 9

it's not necessarily "becoming" smart.

being "smart" is a combo of genetics, womb enviornment, and early development.

Answer 10

study