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Einstein wasn’t that special, he wasn’t superhuman, if you transported the same person in time significantly he would have likely been entirely unremarkable. He had many contemporaries just as capable with complements equally as impressive.

He got famous which was a result of a few of his accomplishments being of topics and characters which got the attention of popular culture.

He was also simply primed with being a person of the right kind of potential being in the right place in the right time.

In short, it was very much luck that enabled him. He also worked hard, he was also quite capable, but the hero exceptional human narrative was overdone.



Einstein: "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

But to be fair: he was smarter than most people.


Anybody very successful has had a lot of luck, that's a given.

But since it's about science, and revolutioning it on too of that, claiming there was nothing special about Einstein make little sense.


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What part do you disagree with?


For this thread: praise, then acknowledgement of reality.




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