Loud Thinking May 29, 2014 at 08:48AM
Albert Einstein
People thought Einstein was a “slow” young man.
He hated the regimented ways of school.
At the age of 16, he failed the entrance exams at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, and had to a smaller school instead.
Though he managed to get a teaching diploma from the Swiss Polytechnic later on, it took him two long years to find any job at all.
And when he did, it was for the Swiss Patent Office as an assistant examiner for patents.
But he tried writing his own scientific papers and thesis from 1901 to 1905 (including one on the theory of special relativity), which were so groundbreaking that by 1909 he became recognized as a leading scientist and one of the most brilliant minds in human history.
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