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Brilliant Minds

What comes to your mind when we speak of brilliant minds? Albert Einstein? Stephan Hawking? Vinton Cerf? Bob Kahn? There are many names to say. Did they acquire that keen mind of their or they trained them? The thing is, we cannot be sure. After all, science has its language and so makes minds. Two types of mind one innately possess extraordinary capabilities and others who train themselves and push their limits. Nevertheless, these limits can be pushed to some extent only after that saturation comes or, say, and it went out of our hands.


A movie named 'A man who knew infinity is based on the life of Srinivas Ramanujan. He was good with the number and contributed a lot in the field of Mathematics. However, what intriguing was that he was not trained or lectured by anyone. Moreover, on the contrary, there was G.H hardy who identified his work and helped him contribute to humanity. I am trying to say that if one deems to a person out of the above two, who will it be? My guess is Srinivas Ramanujan because he is the one who contributed. After all, he is one kept in people's minds; he is the unnatural one. However, that is impractical.



“Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I”
― G.H. Hardy



We belong to second-rate minds, and that is not a bad thing. We should not be upset about it because it is a role nature gave us to perform. Our appreciation and criticism enhance the work of first-rate minds; we give their work applications. We all know about Sir Tesla, and the lack of support for him sent humanity centuries back. I read somewhere that 'Nikola Tesla could have made world wireless before being wired', now that is not the exact line, but it meant the same.

A number of unidentified brains live in areas invisible to the broader world, wasting it on mere survival, tackling nature every day, challenging his way through life, and no one knows about that. We have to give them a stand to speak, present their ideas, and tackle problems with humanity and not one of his own.  



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  1. Gaurav GoyalJuly 3, 2021 at 8:50 PM

    Appreciate it and let me know the scope of improvement.

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