The light of genius Nikola Tesla is known all over the world. Nikola Tesla called on peoples to unite in the name of peace and science. Quotes by Nikola Tesla, who sees far ahead of his time, are a source of inspiration and great wisdom.
Here are just 23 of the many lessons of this extraordinary man.
Thoughts of Nikola Tesla: 23 life lessons
1. Science can make more progress by studying non-physical phenomena.
"From the day that science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
2. Your body is a priceless gift.
It is an amazing work of art, an indescribable beauty, a great mystery, inaccessible to human understanding, it is so delicate and fragile that a word, a breath, a look, a prohibition, a thought can damage it.
3. If you want to unravel the mysteries of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
The universe is not only material bodies that we can feel with our senses. "If you want to unravel the mysteries of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
4. Genius requires privacy.
“Be alone, in it is the secret of invention; be alone, only in it ideas are born. Most people are so wrapped up in the outside world that they don't notice what's going on inside them."
It seems that there is nothing good in being alone. But when we are alone, it means that we are alone with ourselves, i.e. where it is possible to experience the moment of discovery.
We can let ourselves go and immerse yourself in your inner energy. Many people do not seek solitude, but when we connect with our inner being, great opportunities arise.
5. The brain is just a receiver.
“My brain is just a receiver. , strength and inspiration. I have not yet penetrated this innermost essence of the universe, but I know that it exists.
6. The gift of intelligence comes from God.
“The gift of mental faculties comes from God, the divine essence. If we concentrate our mind on truth, we become in harmony with this great power. My mother taught me to look for all truths in the Bible.”
7. Instinct goes beyond knowledge.
“Instinct is something that goes beyond knowledge. We certainly have some subtle filaments that allow us to perceive truths when logical reasoning or any other volitional effort of the brain is useless.
8. The more we know, the more ignorant we become.
“It is paradoxical, but it is still true when they say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for only through enlightenment do we become aware of our limitations.”
9. If you can imagine something, you can achieve it.
“I have a different method. I'm not in a hurry to act right away. When I have an idea, I first imagine it in my mind. I am redesigning, making improvements and operating the device entirely in my mind.”
10. When a natural attraction develops into a passionate desire, the approach to the goal goes by leaps and bounds.
Before any of our active action first there is a desire, then the intention to fulfill it. “When natural attraction develops into passionate desire, the approach to the goal goes by leaps and bounds.”
11. The unknown is worthy of respect and can be a source of joy.
No matter how hard we try, we will never know everything there is to know. "Life is and will remain an equation that cannot be solved, but it contains certain known factors."
Recognizing this is incredibly important in order to lead a fulfilling life.
12. Our virtues and our shortcomings are notseparable.
“Our faults and our virtues are as inseparable as force and matter. If they separate, the person no longer exists.”
13. Misunderstanding is always caused by the inability to appreciate another point of view.
“Battles between men, just like battles between governments and nations, are invariably the result of misunderstandings in the broadest sense of the term. Misunderstandings are always caused by an inability to appreciate and respect another point of view.”
14. Man cannot be saved from his own stupidity by outside efforts.
“My mother understood human nature well and never scolded me. She knew that a man could not be saved from his own stupidity or vice by the efforts or admonitions of someone else, but only by the exercise of his own will."
15. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
“What we now want is closer contact and understanding between individuals and communities throughout the earth and the elimination of selfishness and pride, which always tend to plunge the world into primitive barbarism and strife. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
16. Everything that has become great has been ridiculed in the past.
“Everything that has become great has been ridiculed, repressed, condemned, forbidden in the past. But from this struggle it came out more and more powerful and triumphant.
17. The factors influencing the formation of our destinies are very subtle and not always accessible to our understanding.
“When I look back on the events of my past, I realize how subtle are the factors that shape our destinies.”
18. It's not the love you get that matters.you give, but the one you give.
In our incredibly selfish society, this is a very important reminder: "It's not the love you get that matters, it's the love you give." Giving happiness to others is the most reliable and
19. The miracles of yesterday are commonplace today.
“We crave new sensations, but soon become indifferent to them. The miracles of yesterday are becoming commonplace today.”
20. Every living being is an engine that drives the wheels of the universe.
“Every living being is an engine that drives the wheels of the Universe. Although it would seem to affect only its immediate surroundings, the sphere of external influence extends to an infinity of distance.
21. Patience is the foundation.
“Many inventors fail because of lack of patience. They have no desire to develop the device slowly, clearly and precisely in their mind, so that they can actually feel how it works. They want to put their idea to the test right away.
As a result, they invest a lot of money and valuable materials only to find out that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it's better to see the mistake in your mind before you start putting it into practice."
22. Money is not as valuable as people give it.
“Money is not as valuable as people give it. All my money was invested in experiments, with the help of which I made new discoveries that can make human life a little easier."
23. Races and nations come and go, but Man remains.
“When we talk about man, we mean the concept of humanity as a whole. Before applying scientific methods to the study of its movement as a whole, we must accept this as a physical fact.
But can anyone doubt today that millions of individuals of innumerable types and characters constitute one organism, whole?
While everyone has the freedom to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, we are inseparably linked. These connections cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I feel pain if I cut my finger, because the finger is part of me.
If my friend is hurt, it hurts me too, because my friend and I are one. And now I see a defeated enemy - some piece of matter in the universe that I care about the least, but it still saddens me. Doesn't this prove that each of us is part of a whole?
For centuries, this idea has been proclaimed in the virtuosity of the wise teachings of religion, perhaps not as the only means of bringing peace and harmony among people, but as a profound basic truth.
Buddhism expresses it in one way, Christianity in another, but both religions say the same: we are all one.
Metaphysical evidence, however, is not the only way we can support this idea. Science also recognizes the idea of the connectedness of separate individuals, although not quite in the same sense as it recognizes that the sun, planets and moon together form one body.
Here there can be no doubt that this will be experimentally confirmed when the time comes and our means and methods for studying physical and other states and phenomena will be brought to greater perfection.
Moreover, this one human being lives and will continue to exist. Personality is short-lived, races and nations disappear, but Man remains. This is the profound difference between the individual and the whole."
Translation by Tatyana Beglyak specially for the magazine "Reincarnation".
If ordinary person ask who he knows from the founders of the era electric current, light and incandescent lamps, then the vast majority will remember (of those who know) the famous Thomas Edison, and few will remember Nikola Tesla, a physicist, after whom the unit of magnetic induction is named and whose surname is now heard only in connection with the name brand of expensive electric car. For some reason, Tesla is not very much remembered on the pages of school physics textbooks, although without his works, discoveries and inventions it is difficult to imagine the existence of ordinary things, such as, for example, electric current in our apartments. Like Lomonosov, Nikola Tesla was ahead of his time and did not receive the deserved recognition during his lifetime, however, his work has not yet been properly evaluated.
It all started in 1856 in the small village of Smilyan (now the territory of Croatia): the fourth son was born in the family of a Serbian Orthodox priest, who was christened Nikola. Having learned to read, the boy literally "swallowed" books one after another, often reading at night. As a student at the University of Prague, already in his second year, young Tesla put forward the idea of an induction alternator. However, university professors considered this idea crazy and delusional. But this negative verdict of pundits only inspired the inventor, and already in 1882 a working model was built.
Tesla was eager to turn his offspring into a real industrial plant. He leaves for the USA and simply goes from the ship to the already famous Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb, carbon microphone, phonograph and dynamo. Thanks to the patents received on them, Edison had already managed to become famous and get rich at that time. The famous inventor listened to the young emigrant and, although he was rather cool about his idea, nevertheless offered him a job in his laboratory. The cold attitude to the idea of an alternator was explained simply: all inventions and all scientific developments Edison was based on the use of direct current, he did not want to hear about alternating current. But already in October 1887, without ceasing to work for Edison, Nikola Tesla was able to obtain a patent for his invention. Edison "felt" a dangerous competitor and publicly began to criticize him. He also promised Tesla $ 50,000 for a difficult and very important job for the company, and when the latter successfully completed it, he simply refused to pay, saying that the emigrant apparently did not understand well English language and American humor. Scientists parted as enemies, Tesla ended up on the street without a job and without money.
But the talent was lucky. Having managed to interest some businessmen, Tesla soon opens his own Tesla Electric Light Company, enters into a contract with Westinghouse Electric, a millionaire firm, and even participates in the construction of a hydroelectric power station on Niagara Falls.
The 90s of the 19th century were marked by an irreconcilable struggle between the two companies. On the one hand, it was General Electric, which defended the interests of Edison, who was a supporter of the use of direct current. She was opposed by Westinghouse Electric, which created its products on the basis of many of Nikola Tesla's patents in the field of alternating current. This time entered the history of industry as the "Period of transformer battles." Journalists hired by General Electric in the press spread all sorts of tall tales about alternating current. In 1887 in New Jersey, Edison spoke to the public for a long time, stigmatizing his competitors Tesla and Westinghouse, and then connected a metal plate to a Westinghouse Electric generator producing a current of 1000 volts, on which he had previously placed a dozen animals. Those died. In 1888, when the New York authorities were looking for a more humane look death penalty, Edison advocated that an "alternating current" electric chair be chosen. He believed that a normal person would not want to use a device "made according to the technology of the electric chair."
But the indefatigable Tesla came up with a spectacular counter move. His performance, which took place at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, shocked the whole world. With a straight face, he passed through himself an alternating current of millions of volts - lightning danced on the surface of his skin, but he himself remained unharmed. And when the "crazy" covered with electric discharges with a smile picked up incandescent lamps (by the way - Edison!), which were not connected to any wires, they obediently lit up in his hands. It seemed like real magic. And this despite the fact that Edison has previously stated in numerous speeches that high voltage alternating current will kill anyone who touches the wires!
Tesla continued scientific research with maniacal persistence. Some of his ideas were embodied in the form of numerous patents for inventions. In a lecture given in 1893 at Franklin University (Philadelphia), Tesla spoke of the possibility practical application electromagnetic waves. “I would like to say a few words about a subject that is on my mind all the time, which affects the well-being of all of us. I mean the transmission of meaningful signals, perhaps even energy, to any distance without wires at all. Every day I am more and more convinced of the practical feasibility of this scheme.” Such statements were not unfounded. Back in 1891, during experiments with oscillations high frequency the scientist creates one of the most original instruments of his time. Tesla managed to combine the properties of a transformer and the phenomenon of resonance in one device. This is how the famous resonance transformer was created, which played a big role in the development of many branches of electrical engineering, radio engineering and is widely known as the "Tesla transformer". The inventor proposed to use a resonance transformer to excite an emitter raised high above the ground and capable of transmitting high frequency energy without wires. Speaking in modern terminology, it was about the antenna! Thus, a few years before Popov and Marconi, the idea of wireless communication had already been implemented.
In 1899, in the mountainous region of Colorado, with the financial support of friends, Tesla organized a scientific laboratory. There, being at an altitude of two thousand meters above sea level, he began to study lightning discharges and determine the presence of an electric charge on the earth. He created the original design of the "amplifying transmitter", resembling a transformer and allowing you to get a voltage of up to several million volts at a frequency of up to 150 thousand periods per second. A 60-meter mast was connected to this transmitter. Turning on the transmitter caused lightning discharges in the atmosphere with lightning up to 135 feet long. In one of his experiments, Tesla attached a certain device to an iron beam in the attic of the building in which his laboratory was located. After a while, the walls of houses a few miles from the laboratory began to vibrate, and people ran out into the street in a panic. Because of the huge lightning bolts that often appeared over the mast, the locals dubbed the scientist "the mad inventor". And when the strange vibrations of the houses began, people immediately suspected Tesla of this. The police and reporters were called. The scientist managed to turn off and destroy his device, realizing in time that it could cause a serious disaster. "I could bring down the Brooklyn Bridge in an hour," he later admitted. The experiments had to be stopped.
Then Tesla received financial support from John Pierpont Morgan, one of the millionaires of that time, who became interested in his developments. With the allocated money, a laboratory for signal transmission to Europe was built in New York on Long Island, and a 57-meter-high tower with a steel shaft buried 36 meters into the ground was erected next to it. The tower was crowned with a 55-ton metal dome with a diameter of 20 meters. Science project was named Wardenclyffe. Tesla cherished the dream, in addition to transmitting signals, to seriously engage in the transmission of energy over a distance. The cunning physicist hid from Morgan that the tower was intended not only for broadcasting radio waves, but also for wireless transmission of electricity. As soon as Morgan realized this, he immediately refused to finance Tesla. After all, this invention could bring down the energy market: who will buy what you can get almost for free? As a co-owner of the world's first Niagara hydroelectric power station and large copper plants, Morgan could not allow this to happen. The Wardenclyffe tower was mothballed in 1903, stood abandoned for several years, and in 1917 it was blown up, having come up with a very strange reason - supposedly it could be used by German spies. It is also impossible not to mention the theory according to which the cause of the explosion at Podkamennaya Tunguska in Russia in 1908 (the so-called Tunguska meteorite) could also be the Wardenclyffe project. According to another version, with the help of Wardencliff, Tesla was going to light up the sky for Robert Peary, who made his way in the Arctic darkness to the North Pole. However, these versions do not stand up to criticism, because the fall of the Tunguska body occurred on June 30, 1908, and Robert Peary went to the Pole on February 20, 1909.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1915 caused general bewilderment: the day before, The New York Times wrote that it would be divided between two people, almost enemies - Tesla and Edison. There were a lot of rumors on this topic, Tesla accepted congratulations, but was going to refuse the award, although at that time he needed money - he basically did not want to share this recognition of his merits with Edison. But a week later, the Nobel Committee announced that the English professor William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg would receive the prize in physics for their merits in the study of the structure of crystals using X-rays. Thus, Nikola Tesla did not receive world recognition of his merits.
As time went on, Tesla grew old, but did not leave his dream of transmitting energy without wires. In 1931, with the support of the Pierce-Arrow Co. and General Electric Tesla removed the gasoline engine from the new Pierce-Arrow car and replaced it with a standard 80 hp AC motor. (1800 rpm) Without any traditionally known external power supply. According to eyewitnesses, at a local radio store, he bought 12 vacuum tubes, some wires, a handful of various resistors and assembled all this equipment into a box 60 cm long, 30 wide and 15 high with a pair of 7.5 cm rods that stuck out from the outside. Reinforcing the box behind the driver's seat, he extended the rods and announced, "Now we have power!" After that, he drove the car for a week, accelerating it to 150 km / h. To all questions, where does the electric motor get energy from, Tesla answered: "From the ether around all of us." Not believing his words, the townsfolk spread rumors that the scientist, one way or another, was in league with the dark forces. Tesla was angered by this, he removed the mysterious box from the car and returned to his laboratory in New York. The mystery of the energy source has remained unsolved to this day.
The last years of Nikola Tesla's life are also shrouded in mystery. There are versions that he was engaged in research in the American military corporation RCA. It is known for sure that he led the N.Terbo project (this was his mother's maiden name). Some sources mention the Rainbow Project, which allegedly carried out the famous Philadelphia experiment. Equipment for generating a protective field was installed on the US Navy destroyer Eldridge, which would make the ship invisible to radars, but as a result of the experiment, the ship became invisible to the human eye. They wrote that the Eldridge instantly moved in space from one coast of America to another, that part of the crew died, part disappeared without a trace, and those who survived spent the rest of their lives in a mental hospital. However, later it was possible to prove that there was no experiment. The Eldridge was then in the wrong place, and, in general, all this was invented by one semi-literate sailor who saw how the ship was wrapped with copper wire - a very real way to demagnetize the hull so as not to explode on a magnetic mine.
Also, the whole world is very interested in Tesla's "devil weapon". At the beginning of the 20th century, and then in the early 1940s at the age of 84, the scientist frightened journalists with his new invention. He promised to send a thin, but extremely powerful beam of some particles or waves into the ionosphere, and they would heat this ionosphere so that it would incinerate the enemy below it. Installations of this kind exist, they are called heating stands, but they are never used at full capacity, firstly, because of the unpredictability of the consequences for the experimenters themselves and, secondly, because of the complete meaninglessness of such experiments.
The great scientist died in 1943, leaving almost no notes, diaries and research results. With regard to Tesla's scientific heritage, far from everything is clear. Some of his friends and biographers claimed that the scientist destroyed most of his records at the beginning of World War II, realizing that humanity was not ready to use his discoveries, and they, used as a powerful weapon, could do more harm than good. Some of Tesla's contemporaries who worked with him in his last years claim that the physicist's archive was confiscated by the secret services immediately after his death. This is also one of the versions shrouded in mystery and mysteries. More practical is that the surviving papers of Tesla are in the Belgrade Museum named after him, whose employees publish them from time to time.
Incredible facts about Nikola Tesla
- Tesla claimed that he sleeps only 2 hours at night (although he admitted that he could lie down to rest during the day), and once spent 84 hours at work without feeling tired.
- He was famous for his ingenious photographic memory, he could even memorize entire books!
- According to family legend, after the birth of the boy, the midwife declared that Nicola was destined to be a child of darkness (perhaps because he was born during a thunderstorm, and lightning promises evil fate). His mother, however, to this prophetically said: "No, he will be a child of light."
- One of Tesla's oddities was that he hated touching his hair.
- As a child, Nicola was tormented by nightmares, and, according to historians, later in life this helped him mentally represent his inventions, and very clearly.
- He was obsessed with the number 3.
- Tesla was a strong proponent of hygiene. It is said that this was due to the fact that in his youth he fell ill with cholera and almost died.
- One of Tesla's most unusual quirks was his aversion to round objects!
- Seeking financial support from Morgan in 1901, Tesla told him about his new invention he was working on, the cell phone! Of course, the name was different, but, in fact, he meant precisely communication without wire.
- At some point, Tesla saw both X-ray and radar in his mind.
- He was a supporter of eugenics - the selection of people and birth control.
- Tesla hated pearls and avoided talking to women who wore pearl jewelry.
- He held the belief that family life, the birth of children is incompatible with scientific work. But shortly before his death, the scientist admits that the rejection of his personal life was an unjustified sacrifice.
Prepared by Ivan Kuparvas
Nikola Tesla - 10 unknown factsLong overshadowed by his famous employer Thomas Edison, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla became best known as the inventor of the AC induction motor and the Tesla coil. While the scientist enjoyed a career as a successful inventor, he never ceased to amaze those around him with strange behavior and was never seen in a romantic relationship. Unfortunately, Tesla ended his life ruined and alone.
Becoming more and more eccentric every year, he accumulated a whole collection of oddities, thereby earning the title of a real "mad scientist".
We list just a few Interesting Facts about Tesla:
1. Tesla came up with the idea of the modern smartphone in 1909
Obsessed with the idea of creating a compact device for transmitting text messages and images over a distance using coded signals, Tesla designed the first wireless transmission tower, which was installed on Long Island in New York. The Vordenclyffe tower was intended for commercial transatlantic telephony, radio broadcasting, and the demonstration of wireless power transmission. The tower never fully functioned and was dismantled in 1917.
2. Tesla suffered from a fear of pearls
The scientist was not able to stand even a glance at the pearl and once even sent his secretary home when she barely appeared on the horizon with a string of pearls around her neck. And this is just one of many oddities, such as, for example, the scientist's obsession with the number 3, which together suggests that Tesla suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
3. Tesla rarely slept
According to the scientist himself, he slept only 2 hours a day, and sometimes he spent two days in his laboratory without sleep at all. A friend of the inventor, Kenneth Swezey, confirmed this information and spoke about the case when one late night a call came from Tesla in his apartment: “I was sleeping like a dead dream at home ... Unexpectedly phone call woke me up…Tesla was talking enthusiastically…with some pauses…he was discussing the problem, comparing different theories and commenting on his conjectures; when he felt that he had groped for a solution, he suddenly hung up.” It was like he was disconnected from outside world and fell into a half-sleep, which allowed him to "recharge the batteries."
4 Tesla Had A Photographic Memory
The ability to simultaneously read literature and capture the text in memory, of course, played into the hands of the scientist. He could use all the necessary information available in memory, as if he always had an entire library at his disposal. This allowed the inventor to rarely use drawings: everything was designed in his head directly on the basis of the information available there.
5. Tesla spoke 8 languages
The scientist, thanks to the extraordinary abilities of his brain and amazing memory, was fluent in 8 languages: Serbo-Croatian, English, Czech, German, French, Hungarian, Italian and Latin. Linguists call such people "hyperpolyglots" (people who speak 6 or more languages fluently).
6. Tesla invented the first hydroelectric power station
In 1895, together with George Westinghouse, Tesla designed and built the first hydroelectric power station using the energy of Niagara Falls.
7. Tesla knew the secret of the "death ray"
To be more precise, the scientist had an intricate project to create "death rays" - an energy cannon called "Teleforce", which was to be used during the First World War and could destroy entire armies. He honestly described the invention as follows: "The cannon sends concentrated particles through the air with such unstoppable energy that it is capable of defeating an entire fleet at a distance of 200 miles ...". Tesla worked on launching the cannon until his death.
8. Tesla had a weird relationship with pigeons
While the scientist was not capable of showing feelings towards people and was perceived as an asocial person, he showed his emotions towards pigeons. Like many people, he often fed these birds in the parks. What's more, even when he was too sick to do it himself, he hired people to do it for him. In the last years of his life, he often brought injured pigeons to the hotel where he lived in order to cure and release the bird. He had a particularly strong affection for one bird: “I loved this bird as a man loves a woman. As long as she was by my side, my life had meaning."
9. Tesla died alone and without money
A very sad end for such a great thinker, but Tesla died on January 7, 1943 from coronary thrombosis in a New York hotel room, which became his home for 10 years. The maid discovered his body two days later, risking ignoring the "Do not disturb" sign on his room door. Despite selling the rights to the invention, Tesla died in poverty, as he himself sponsored his own invention projects, the end of which was never in sight.
10. Many of Tesla's inventions remained classified.
Many inventions of the scientist after his death were seized by the Office of Foreign Property, although Tesla was a US citizen. After some time, some inventions were transferred to his family, others remained in the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, but many of the scientist's inventions remained classified. People can only guess what else Tesla could have invented - for example, a source of free energy - before his death.
Some collectors, obsessed with the idea of replenishing their collections, eventually turn a hobby into a profession, opening real museums in their homes, and the most unusual collections are awarded the right to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Translation for – Anna Golovanova
In different parts of our planet there are people who are united by an all-consuming passion for collecting bizarre and original items. Someone collects bras or shoes, someone collects wall clocks, tin boxes or folding pictures - puzzles.
Some avid collectors belong to creative professions, in particular, are artists or craftsmen. The rest of the people are simply enthusiasts of their work, who have placed more than one thousand things dear to their hearts in a small area of private houses and apartments: from soft toys to souvenirs and clothes with the theme of Star Wars or Superman comics.
Some collectors, obsessed with the idea of replenishing their collections, eventually turn a hobby into a profession, opening real museums in their homes, and the most unusual collections are awarded the right to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
We bring to your attention photos of some collectors against the backdrop of their strange, sometimes even creepy collections.
Herbert Chavez poses as Clark Kent from Smallville, the TV adaptation of the Superman comics.
Herbert Chavez of Calamba, Laguna, Philippines has collected a wide variety of Superman memorabilia, including superhero clothing, miniatures, posters, life-size statues and more.
Jian Yan has to stand on a stool to get to some of his extensive collection at the collector's house in Singapore.
Jian Yan from Singapore started collecting dolls as a teenager. He never paid attention to the widespread belief that only the weak half of humanity is interested in collecting dolls. Today, Jian Yan is the owner of nine thousand dolls, six thousand of which are world-famous Barbie dolls.
The unusual balcony of Etanis Gonzalez in the Venezuelan capital terrifies the artist's neighbors
Popular Venezuelan artist Etanis Gonzalez has placed a huge number of creepy dolls on his balcony in Caracas.
Andrea Rojas poses in front of her own collection of dolls at her home in the city of Heredia, located a few kilometers north of the capital of San José.
Andrea Rojas, a resident of Costa Rica, also collects dolls. There are already more than four and a half thousand of them in her collection.
Margaret Tyler's London home has become a sanctuary for the British royal family. The mistress of the house in the living room, surrounded by her treasures
For thirty years, the staunch royalist Margaret Tyler has collected the world's largest collection of memorabilia related to the British royal family: dishes, figurines, books, magazines, paintings, posters, photographs, etc. In total, the collection of Margaret Tyler today has ten thousand titles.
Li Tao dusts antique clocks at his museum
A resident of China, Li Tao, owns a museum of ancient clocks in the city of Shenyang in the northeastern part of China in the province of Liaoning. Li Tao became interested in watches and clockwork as a child under the influence of his father. Today, Li Tao's collection includes five and a half thousand items, many of which have not only artistic, but also important historical significance.
Yvette Darden's impressive collection took up the entire living space of her home in Grand Halle in eastern Belgium, so the owners had to purchase another additional building.
Belgian pensioner Yvette Darden has collected over 55,000 antique metal boxes in her home. Unusual exhibits of various sizes and shapes with lids and lithographic pictures are a reflection of different historical eras and events.
Zhang Dafang poses with one of the valuable pieces of his collection
The Beijing apartment of Chinese citizen Zhang Dafang is packed with an incredible number of telephone sets.
Jordan Michael Geller in front of Nike's Air Jordan Retro line of sneakers specifically designed for basketball legend Michael Jordan
American Jordan Michael Heller from Las Vegas has assembled the largest collection of Nike sneakers by opening the world's first ShoeZeum sneaker museum on Las Vegas Boulevard in Nevada. In 2013, the Geller collection, which includes more than two and a half thousand pairs, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
He Peiqi next to his unique work
A patient artist and collector, He Peiqi, who lives in the city of Chongqing in central China, has created the most accurate miniature copy of his city. The man needed about fifty thousand coins different types, including already obsolete, a huge number of colored pebbles for decorating streets and Chinese chopsticks for food, with the help of which the master built his creation.
Yuri Kreshkov and his collection of bottles
A resident of Kiev, Yuri Kreshkov, collected about three thousand empty bottles from under alcoholic beverages, placing an unusual collection in his small two-room apartment.
Gina Lacuna collects a puzzle for her museum in the city of Tagatay
Owner small business in the sale of children's clothing, Gina Lakuna from the city of Tagaytay in the province of Cavite on the Philippine island of Luzon, fifty kilometers from Manila, collected 473 puzzles.
Celine Cornet with a panda toy at her house in Akkur
The collection of pandas, owned by an elderly couple Celine and André Cornet from the Belgian city of Accur, has two thousand two hundred delightful soft toys. The first toy appeared to the spouses back in 1978. According to the decision of the spouses, after their death, the collection will go to sick children.
Emeline Duotoy poses in front of her spotted collection at her home in Saint-Omer in northern France.
French model Emeline Duotoy has been collecting toy cows for over seven years. To date, the girl owns an extensive collection of 1679 items, which includes Stuffed Toys, cups, slippers, magnets, knickknacks and other little things that have "cow" symbols.
Chen Jingzhu lectured at more than thirty educational institutions across the country, where he taught girls that wearing improperly fitting underwear increases the risk of illness. After the lectures, the girls willingly give their bras to the collector
A resident of the resort town of Sanya, in the very south of Hainan Island in China, Chen Jingzhu has assembled a very unusual collection of five thousand women's bras. By his actions, the collector is trying to draw public attention to such a terrible oncological disease as breast cancer.
Collection of stones Luigi Lineri
The Italian Luigi Lineri, who lives on the banks of the Adige River near Verona, devotes his free time to collecting stones that the waters of the river have given some characteristic and easily recognizable shape, for example, a fish head or a human face. There are already tens of thousands of stones in the home workshop of the 79-year-old Lineri. “I’m not even going to count them, but their number is huge,” says the collector.
James Burns and his collection of Star Wars memorabilia
Love for the series Star Wars"made the Englishman James Burns not just the owner of a large and diverse collection of items with the symbols of the adored film. Thanks to his unusual hobby, he met new friends. "I got to know huge amount wonderful people around the world. I am happy to belong to such a wonderful community of like-minded people,” he said. “Nothing compares to this.”
Who are called obsessed people? If we turn to explanatory dictionary, then we get information of approximately the following content: this is a person who is passionate about his idea, thought or activity. People who are obsessed with something often do not notice what is happening around them. Anything that doesn't affect them inner peace, unconsciously separated or even rejected without thought. They are entirely focused on their own feelings and hourly ready to make new amazing discoveries. What distinguishes these individuals? What qualities of character lead to success, help not to give up, but to follow your dream? Let's try to figure it out!
Ability to manage yourself
Possessed people are not those who are mad at some thought and cannot concentrate on what is happening around them. First of all, they are distinguished by excessive immersion in the process of creation. So, a musician can work for hours on a symphony, and a poet can sit for long minutes waiting for a suitable rhyme. Wherein external events reality goes unnoticed. Artists are often called obsessed. This is how they seem to those around them - a look detached from the world, a thoughtful facial expression, immersion in eternity. It would be a mistake to assume that creative person not able to muster the will into a fist and act purposefully. In fact, enthusiasm for an idea is manifested in the ability to manage one's own internal state. Emotions are under control because the brain is completely focused on achieving the goal.
The ability to manage oneself lies, first of all, in the proper organization of space for activity. A person who has achieved success gladly shares his secrets with those around him: for several hours a day he is completely concentrated on solving an urgent task, realizing that this necessary step brings him closer to a common goal. People who are obsessed with their dreams are not afraid to take decisive action. They are distinguished by courage and enthusiasm. Making mistakes, they continue to move forward, often fully aware of what is happening to them. A person who is carried away by his own thought knows how to be filled with new positive thoughts, focus on the main thing and not think about something secondary.
Victory over failure
Mistakes happen to everyone. The great minds of mankind have argued that it is impossible to walk along the road so as not to stumble and fall. Only in this way do we comprehend the wise science of life, learn to draw appropriate conclusions. The ability to get up after a failed failure and find the strength to move on embodies the greatest power. Most people give up too easily when faced with even minor difficulties. The bulk is lost in case of any unjustified expectations, gives in to minor difficulties and endlessly complains about fate.
Possessed people often look crazy in the eyes of society, but they, like no other, remain true to their destiny. An artist or musician will never give up his calling, will endure hunger and adverse conditions, but will not break, will not give up his gift in a fit of despair. The ability to overcome failure is a very valuable acquisition. If you have this quality, then there is no significant obstacle in the world that could prevent you from coming to your own greatest discoveries.
Loyalty to your talent
Each person has certain abilities. Someone from childhood is good at drawing or inventing exciting stories. The other plays great musical instruments, and the third dances beautifully. But not everyone really strives to develop in the chosen direction, makes significant efforts for their own development. Meanwhile, success depends precisely on this factor - how hard and selflessly we work. Most live simply by inertia, not trying to develop their talents and grow new opportunities. Such an approach to business cannot but upset.
People who are obsessed with their profession, as a rule, remain faithful to it for a long time, all their lives. From the outside it may seem that they are not interested in anything else at all, but in fact this is not the case. Such a person wants to take place as a person, to develop his individuality as much as possible. In most cases, he manages to achieve the goal, but only he alone knows what the price of victory is, how much he has to sacrifice in the name of future success.
Self improvement
Obsessed people do not tend to live a boring and monotonous life. For them, there is nothing sadder than spending everyday life monotonous and dull, not meeting the dawn and not sitting up for creative work until late. Such a pastime resembles hard labor, from which there is no deliverance, so you want to avoid it as much as possible. They strive to find new horizons for themselves, to identify additional perspectives, to find opportunities. Without such intrinsic motivation it becomes difficult for them to live. They are constantly attracted and attracted somewhere - sounds, colors, smells seem surprisingly attractive! The more intellectual a person is, the more he strives for self-development. People obsessed with their idea, as a rule, do not stand in one place, but by all means want to develop further. By improving their abilities, they are actually moving in the direction of their desired success.
Self-improvement is a serious work on oneself, which makes a person doubt his achievements all the time, analyze his life path in general and every single step in particular. Most of us, when trouble arises, begin to seek solace from those around us. but often few people understand, so they remain alone in the saddest moments. The one who is focused on his own dream does not retreat in the face of difficulties, does not seek to escape from doubt and fear. When a person has a goal that leads him forward, the whole life begins to appear in a different light - brighter and more positive colors.
Ability to be inspired
Having the ability to control the activities they perform, people who are obsessed with their goal really experience the joy of what they do. At all times, such an approach to work was considered the greatest rarity. They are taken to the cause with a sense of curiosity, pride and strong interest. Their day begins with a conscious intention to do something, and not just with chaotic actions brought to automatism. Incomparable pleasure arises in moments of creative insight. They can admire the discovery made for hours, just like children, they can be surprised at everything that happens in the world. In fact, regardless of physical age, artists, poets, musicians, actors, scientists always remain young. Youth is a state of mind, not the number of years lived. Each victory becomes for them the greatest gift, a revelation that has no name.
The ability to experience inspiration is the prerogative of a creative person obsessed with making dreams come true. No matter how serious the obstacles, nothing can negatively affect its formation. Perhaps the most valuable thing in the life of such a person is freedom, the ability to manage his own time. That's why the creative person more experiencing loneliness than others. For a gifted person, there is nothing sadder than the need to adapt to circumstances, the opinions of strangers who know nothing about art and science.
Willpower
Few people can boast that they really completely manage their time and keep things under control. Most are not ready to live in anticipation of miraculous changes, stop hoping for the best as a result of adverse events of the past. We endlessly complain, look for the guilty, do not notice our own merits. Taking responsibility means that a person must refuse all accusations against anyone, boldly act on their own. Willpower is what distinguishes obsessed people. They have a unique ability to deny themselves even the most necessary. Due to this, there is a release of time, which is confidently used for self-development, learning, creativity, which allows you to come to new, amazing discoveries.
Willpower helps not to stop at the achieved result, but to continue acting with the same perseverance. Even in those moments when hands drop, but slowly melts, it is this component that contributes to being able to perk up. The great minds of mankind were distinguished by the fact that they saw a specific goal in front of them and gradually moved towards its achievement. All talented actors, writers, artists, musicians forgot about troubles at work, drew an inexhaustible source of inspiration and vitality.
Examples
What does it mean - obsessed person? This is the one who, not sparing himself, goes in the direction of his plan. Often strong personalities have no idea how to achieve everything they want, but in the end, things turn out exactly the way they need to. The development of civilization has always been led by extraordinary nature, for which there were no barriers and restrictions. In an effort to go beyond, they led crowds of people, developed independently, often without any outside support. In the history of mankind there famous people obsessed with their idea. People's examples show how important particular principles and beliefs were to them. Thanks to their devotion to creativity and activity, they achieved deafening popularity, became famous and famous. Today, the whole country knows their names, and some of them even won world fame. Examples of possessed people who have become famous for their gift will be presented below.
Ludwig van Beethoven
His unforgettable music to this day pierces the hearts of true connoisseurs of immortal classics! Such masterpieces as "Symphony No. 5", "Moonlight Sonata", "For Elise" are known all over the world. Beethoven is famous for his vivid works, frantic attitude to the creative process. At a fairly young age, he began to gradually lose his hearing.
Such a misfortune did not stop the composer - he began to compose deep music with even greater inspiration. Having completely lost his hearing, he created the most successful and famous works that the whole planet knows today. This man, experiencing tremendous inner pain, continued to fight for the right to be creative and proved to himself how indestructible the inner strength of a mature, strong, self-sufficient person can be.
D. I. Mendeleev
D. I. Mendeleev is the greatest scientist who made many discoveries. It is difficult to overestimate his merits, as it is impossible to underestimate. The creation of the periodic system of elements brought the scientist great fame. For many years he approached this discovery.
He treated his work with particular obsession, not forgetting about it even at night. It was for this reason that in a dream he was able to come to the result of his many years of work. D. I. Mendeleev made a significant contribution to chemical science.
M. V. Lomonosov
This is the greatest genius of his era, one of the most prominent scientists on a global scale. He owns discoveries made in various fields of knowledge - mathematics, physics, geography, medicine, physiology. For many hours on end, he studied the fundamental materials, endlessly read scientific and other books, sometimes sacrificing sleep and the need to eat. Only people obsessed with their idea are capable of such a feat. Lomonosov was one of them.
Leonardo da Vinci
His masterpieces are known all over the world. "Mona Lisa", "Baptism of Christ", "Last Supper", "Lady with an Ermine", "Madonna in the Rocks", "John the Baptist" - and to this day we admire these brilliant works that stagger our imagination. It is difficult, perhaps, to say what this man did not know how to do.
In addition to creating picturesque paintings, Leonardo da Vinci succeeded in doing predictions, invented a machine gun, scuba gear. He was very obsessed with the idea of flight. The artist himself greatly lamented the fact that he could not fly, and invented various ways fumes into the air.
Marina Tsvetaeva
This is a famous Russian poetess, whose poems stagger the imagination of true connoisseurs of genuine poetry. The creativity of this person is distinguished by a syllable that takes the soul. It seems that Tsvetaeva existed on the verge of hope and despair, like a man possessed by mania. Her life cannot be called simple and carefree. The fate of the poetess was not easy, for this reason she had to fight for many years to raise children and support her husband. The creative heritage of Marina Tsvetaeva is the result of her attitude to life.
She was not always accepted by society and appreciated, she suffered a lot from unfair treatment. The examples of possessed people show the degree of vulnerability and sensitivity with which they approached the world.
Elena Ksenofontova
Today, this actress attracts thousands of admiring glances. Elena Ksenofontova deserves all respect. In her life, events took place that would break many, make them lose faith in themselves and their strengths. However, the actress did not break down, did not lose her high performance. The effectiveness of her work is confirmed by numerous roles in the field of cinema. Before becoming an actress, Elena Ksenofontova went through a series of difficult trials: to survive a disappointing diagnosis, to prepare for the birth of children for a long time.
Elena Ksenofontova attracts the admiring glances of viewers also because she knows how to win. A man obsessed with his work as much as the actress herself gives herself to the profession, is completely focused on own purposes. She does not want to give up and loves to be the first, the only one of her kind in everything.
Thus, possessed people are creative individuals endowed with some kind of talent. Often their abilities are difficult to measure in words, awards or achievements. We simply look at their activities and admire everything that appears before our eyes. These greatest creators of both the past and the present aspire to live with full dedication, giving the world their feelings, emotions, impressions contained in the products of creation.
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