Do You Have A Superior Mind?

Saturday Stories

March 17, 2018

I was six years old when I learned a wise lesson. In front of our first-grade classroom, above the blackboard, was a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt I would remember forever: 

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." 

As time goes by, I see its wisdom more and more. I notice that people who only talks about people are those who spread gossip and intrigue. 

Imagine a whiteboard. Using a marker, put a dot in a corner. Now draw a circle around the dot. A small mind is like this: it magnifies the unimportant and perceives things out of context and out of proportion.

Now erase the circle. The dot is still there, yet it is insignificant compared to the rest of the white spaces. This is how broad-minded people think - they see things in the proper perpective.

Character has nothing to do with intelligence. It's not about how high is the IQ: it's about how open is the mind.

I have the highest respect for those who discuss and create ideas, like my three favorite physicists Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking who passed away last March 14, Einstein's birth anniverary.

Hawking made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. He showed that black holes generate and emit sub-atomic matching pairs of particles and anti-particles (known as Hawking Radiation) just outside the event horizon. This thermal radiation comes from the positive particle, while the negative anti-particle will be drawn back, which causes the black hole to lose mass and eventually disappear. 

His breakthrough has unified the two major theoretical frameworks in physics: general relativity and quantum field theory. Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant minds in the history of mankind, and he is now at one with his beloved infinite universe. 

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