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Becoming Brilliant

 

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Who doesn’t wish to be brilliant? To come up with exciting and amazing ideas, to think what others have not thought, to have a “beautiful mind” are aspirations most humans have.

 

But how exactly can one become brilliant? Is it possible at all to become brilliant - that is, cultivate brilliance - or is brilliance something that is inborn?

 

These are difficult questions. But we try to answer these in this section of Billion Dollars Questions.

 

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Web References

 

  • 4 Scientific Strategies to Become Brilliant at Anything – from Success Attraction
  • Brilliant Minds Honored – Popular Science’s fourth annual “Brilliant 10” review by USA Today
  • Seven Rules for Sharpening your Thinking Skills – from Paul’s Tips
  • Exercises for the Human Brain – from the Franklin Institute Online
  • How to Exercise an Open Mind – from Wiki How
  • Simple Exercises to Make Yourself Far Cleverer – Guardian UK, Mar 2006

 

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  • Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises - by Lawrence Katz, Manning Rubin, Pub: Workman Publishing Company

 

List of All-time Geniuses

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Germany - Poet/Writer

Emanuel Swedenborg - Sweden - Religious writer

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - Germany - Philosopher/Mathematician

John Stuart Mill - England - Philosopher/Economist/Political theorist

Blaise Pascal - France - Mathematician/Physicist/Religious thinker

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Austria – Philosopher

Bobby Fischer - U.S.A. - Chess player

Galileo Galilei - Italy - Physicist/Astronomer/Philosopher

René Descartes - France - Philosopher/Mathematician

Madame De Stael - France - Woman of letters/Novelist/Political Philosopher

Immanuel Kant - Germany – Philosopher

Linus Carl Pauling - U.S.A. - Chemist - Double Nobel Prize Winner

Sofia Kovalevskaya - Russia/Sweden - Mathematician/Writer

Thomas Chatterton - England - Poet/Writer                                                           

Charles Darwin - England – Naturalist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austria – Composer

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) - England – Writer

Nicolaus Copernicus - Poland - Cleric/Astronomer

Olof Palme - Sweden - Politician

Rembrandt van Rijn - Holland - Painter/Etcher

Anna Lindh - Sweden – Politician

George Sand (Aurore Dupin) - France – Writer

Albert Einstein – Germany/USA – Scientist/Physicist

Stephen Hawking – United Kingdom – Scientist/Physicist

Thomas Alva Edison – USA – Scientist

Ben Franklin – USA – Scientist/Political Activist/Writer

Srinivas Ramanujan – India - Mathematician

 

 

Engineers

Jethro Tull

Johannes Gutenberg

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Edison

Wernher Von Braun

The Wright Brothers

Santos Dumont

Joseph Whitworth 1804-1887, Engineer and inventor

 

Political, social and economic innovators and activists

Machiavelli

MahatmaGandhi

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Biologists and medics

Charles Darwin

Louis Pasteur

Joseph Lister

Sigmund Freud

Edward Jenner

 

Chemists

Dmitri Mendeleev

Linus Pauling

Michael Faraday

Antoine Lavoisier

 

Physicists

Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Paul Dirac

Niels Bohr

Max Planck

Erwin Schroedinger

Werner Heisenberg

James Clerk Maxwell

Marie Curie

William Gilbert

Richard Feynman

 

Mathematicians

Euclid of Alexandria

Pythagoras

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Leonhard Euler

Archimedes of Syracuse

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Georg Cantor

Paul Erdos

Alan Turing

Kazimierz Kuratowski

Stephen Cook and Richard Karp

Evariste Galois

Blaise Pascal

 

Philosophers

Gautama Buddha

Plato

Aristotle

Rene Descartes

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

David Hume

Immanuel Kant

Ernst Mach

Confucius

Lao Tsu

John Stuart Mill

Bertrand Russell

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Theologians

Martin Luther

Thomas Aquinas

Benedict De Spinoza

Max Stirner

John Wesley

Augustine of Hippo

 

Musicians

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Igor Stravinsky

Scott Joplin

Glen Miller

Edward Duke Ellington

 

Writers

Homer

Plato

William Shakespeare

Francis Bacon

Moliere

Virginia Woolf

Hermann Hesse

Doctor Seuss

 

Artists

Claude Monet

Rembrandt

Michelangelo

Diego Rivera

Pablo Picasso?

Wassily Kandinsky

Frida Kahlo

 

People in more than one category

Leonardo Da Vinci (visual arts, engineering)

John Von Neumann

Buckminster Fuller

 

Computer Geniuses

Alan Turing

Bjarne Stroustrup

Dan Brinklin

Tim Berners Lee

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman (invented Public Key Cryptography)

Ted Nelson

Charles Babbage

Konrad Zuse

 

Miscellaneous

Terence McKenna

Yogi Berra

SteveWozniak

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Stephen Hawking

Murray GellMann

Hugh Everett

Augusta Ada Byron

Benjamin Franklin

Ayn Rand

Thomas Jefferson

Noam Chomsky (philosophy, linguistics)

Karl Marx

Adam Smith

Eric Drexler

Frank Lloyd Wright

Richard Stallman

 

 

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