Einstein's entrepreneurial course

Hearing the name Einstein, it is estimated that everyone is conditioned to be "genius, master, eccentric". But few people know how such a genius grew into a master.

Einstein made headlines in various newspapers and magazines at the age of 40 in 19 19 and became a big star. In the first 40 years, especially in the first 30 years, although he was a genius, he really struggled and lost his job. Can you imagine the life torture of a person who was fired, re-enrolled, couldn't find a job for two years after graduation, and his parents repeatedly went bankrupt when they opened a factory?

Einstein was born in 1879. You might as well think of him as/kloc-80 years ago.

He was born in Ulm, Germany. A small place in the south, probably equivalent to China, Guangxi or Sichuan.

His parents are Jewish, his father has a talent for mathematics and his mother has a talent for music. However, the reality is cruel. They are not talented enough and probably don't want to work, so they have always been small businessmen.

It may be that Einstein, a child, is under great economic pressure. So the whole family moved to Munich, Germany to make a living. Munich is in the southeast of Germany, doesn't it sound a bit like coming to Guangdong to work from Sichuan, where you are married and have children? . Of course, they are better than working in the south. Einstein's father and his uncle set up a small factory to make small appliances in Munich. By the way, Einstein's father's road to entrepreneurship has not been smooth, making his family poor and insecure. Many changes and personalities of Einstein are related to this, which will be discussed later.

Einstein saw the compass when he was five years old. He later claimed that the moment he saw this compass, he planted a destiny to explore the principles behind everything.

Einstein began to learn violin at the age of six. Not bad, but there was no exam at that time, so it was difficult to verify his violin talent. However, the violin did become the second best thing in his life. First of all, of course, physics. Besides, there is almost nothing else that is good at.

/kloc-when he was 0/0 years old, based on the fine tradition of Jews, he often invited a Jewish fellow-townsman in Munich-a college student-to his house to make a living. As you know, the level of college students is actually like that, but they can still put on airs in front of Einstein, who is 10 years old, which greatly improves Einstein's thinking and knowledge.

At the age of 1 1, Einstein began to study advanced mathematics, which still showed his talent. After all, many people born after 80s 1 1 may not have graduated from primary school.

/kloc-starting to read Kant's philosophy at the age of 0/3 is also killing all beings. After all, Kant is not something that ordinary people can read.

/kloc-when I was 0/5 years old, my father's business in Munich went bankrupt and I couldn't go on. The whole family went to Italy further south to make a living (you can imagine going to Nanyang to make a living in the Philippines). He still stays in Munich and wants to get a high school diploma before going to Italy.

16 years old, he really doesn't like middle schools in Munich. For example, he is better at math than the teacher, and the teacher is unhappy, and other subjects are quite poor. And he wants to avoid 17 years old and do military service in Germany. So he is going to play some tricks to see if he can graduate early. But the school may have known his motives in advance and even fired him in advance. So he came to Italy, half happy and half sad. He still has the problem of being fired. Later, he publicly scolded his German alma mater without name: "I thought the worst thing was to rely mainly on intimidation, violence and artificial authority to work." This practice undermines students' healthy emotions, honesty and self-confidence; It produces submissive people. It is not surprising that such schools have become a common practice in Germany and Russia. "

In Italy, he had nothing to do for several months and didn't want to listen to his father's advice to find a job, but he found that he couldn't go to college without a high school diploma unless he went to Switzerland.

So he went to a Swiss university. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the exam. But the headmaster thought he was good at math, so he recommended him to go to a high school in Switzerland to take another exam. So he studied in a Swiss high school for a year. At the same time, at the age of 16, he did a very brave thing. He applied for renunciation of German citizenship.

/kloc-at the age of 0/7, Einstein was admitted to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he studied as a teacher and later became a middle school teacher in physics and mathematics. There are 1 1 students in the class, and only one girl named mileva is the only class flower.

Einstein still didn't respect his teachers in college and liked to skip classes, but think about it, skipping classes is too obvious in classes with only 1 1 people. So Einstein has never been very popular with teachers.

There is a Grossman in his class. He is a good student. This guy is careful in class and remembers his notes well. So his notes are Einstein's life-saving straw in every exam.

So what did Einstein do in these four years? He fell into an academic problem about ether. Before he entered the university, he was drafting an academic paper entitled "Study on the Ether State of Magnetic Field". He has been thinking about this problem for several years in college. As for why he is keen on his academic career of truancy, there is actually a very realistic and even sad reason: in those years, his father's business failed even more, and Einstein's tuition and living expenses in college for several years were completely supported by several uncles. You can see how he recorded his status at that time: "When my poor parents didn't have a moment of happiness for many years, their misfortunes made me feel heavy. As an adult, I can only watch passively, and there is nothing I can do about it, which also makes me deeply distressed. To my relatives, I am just a burden ... if I am not alive, I will definitely feel better. Year after year, I don't let myself have any happiness. It was this idea, that is, a distraction, that got me through it, and it has always been this idea that made me not disappointed. " Obviously, his parents have been half dead for more than ten years, which almost made Einstein a depressed young man. He thinks about some profound problems in a lonely way, which can be said to be an escape from reality, but he seeks to divert his attention to reduce his troubles.

However, he is unkempt and strange, and he has no money at home. He often skipped classes and often said some profound words, and got the only class flower Mileva in the class.

Later, Einstein's father's business improved. But his father probably heard about his son's love affair and didn't agree with him to find this girlfriend elsewhere. Einstein certainly wouldn't listen to his father, so his father cut off financial aid to Einstein.

/kloc-0 in the autumn of 900, Einstein finally graduated at the age of 2 1. However, his girlfriend, mileva, somehow graduated one year late (probably because Einstein skipped class).

Although Einstein broke up after graduation, he had neither a grant nor a job. Their normal students mainly work as middle school teachers, and many students teach middle schools. For example, like his buddy Grossman, he graduated well because he was serious in class, and even stayed in school to teach.

But Einstein graduated in autumn, and it took him nearly two years to find a regular job. The long road to job hunting in the past two years is really a bitter tear:

In these two years,

His father died, I don't know if it was caused by worry (but his father did write a letter to the school teachers privately during this period, asking them to take care of his son).

He worked in the observatory for some time. But it is difficult to find a job without Swiss nationality, so I joined Swiss nationality.

But naturalization requires military service, and Einstein didn't like it. Fortunately, he is flat-footed (I don't know if he deliberately used the back door to avoid military service).

He worked as a temporary substitute teacher in a school for two months.

College students recommended him to be a tutor in a private boarding school for middle school students. But after working for three months, I was fired because I was too maverick.

He advertised in the newspaper for a tutor: "Albert Einstein, graduated from Federal Institute of Technology. Teaching physics class, 3 francs per hour, please contact if you are willing. "

During this period, with the help of his friend Grossman's father, Einstein went to the Swiss Patent Office to look for a job. The director likes it, so

Sent a job advertisement "for a second-class engineer. Applicants should be highly educated and proficient in mechanical engineering or physics ... ". Although it is an advertisement in the newspaper, it is actually reserved for Einstein (you see, civil servants also have shady stories).

By the way, from 190 1, the Nobel family in Sweden won a Nobel Prize. Einstein may have had this idea, and he was not idle while looking for a job, and published an academic paper.

1June 902 16 It's almost two years since he graduated. Einstein was finally officially appointed by the Patent Office, but his work level was not the second-class engineer advertised in the newspaper, but was reduced to the third-class engineer. Einstein didn't care, or maybe it wasn't his turn to care, and began his six-year career in the patent office.

However, during the six years of 1902- 1908, Einstein made many amazing physical achievements in his spare time, especially in 1905, when he was blessed by aliens. In addition, he also obtained a doctorate from his alma mater with his thesis. But in the meantime, he earns 300 francs a month to support mileva and his newborn child. Mileva, who was upset by daily necessities, often had friction with Einstein, which was not easy.

1909, at the age of 30, his alma mater finally opened his eyes and invited him back to teach. In the report of the conscription Committee, wrote in dog blood:

"... Dr. Einstein is a Jew, or rather, a Jew among scholars. They have all kinds of unpleasant eccentric personalities, such as recklessness, rashness, and the bartender's thoughts when they realize their academic status (in many cases, there is no reason at all) ... There are some things in their personalities that are usually regarded as typical' Jewish style'. "

It can be seen that Jews really began to dislike in Europe at that time. But Einstein did have all kinds of unpleasant eccentric personalities, such as recklessness and recklessness, especially the divine comment of "the bartender's idea"

19 10 Einstein 3 1 year-old, his second son Edward was born, but the relationship between husband and wife was even worse (the second son became mentally ill and Einstein was badly hit).

19 1 1 went to the university of Prague in Germany as a full professor. In fact, he didn't like Germany very much, but only went for more money.

He returned to his alma mater in Switzerland.

19 13 returned to Germany and joined the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. But this time, mileva stayed in Switzerland forever and didn't want to come to Germany with him.

19 17 years, Einstein, who was alone in Germany, lived an irregular life, lacked personal care and got hepatitis. Later, I married my uncle's daughter Elsa, who was three years older than him and divorced. When he divorced mileva, because he didn't have much money, mileva asked him to win the Nobel Prize and gave it to her (Einstein really gave it all two years later).

After 19 19, Einstein began to become a big celebrity. 1933, because of German anti-Semitism, his family went to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, USA.

It can be said that this kind of research institute, which has no plan and no task, regards the world as its own laboratory and has three meals a day, is the most suitable place for Einstein, especially Einstein before the age of 40. However, when Einstein joined Princeton in his fifties, he was already too famous, so he was not really at leisure in Princeton. He still misses the hard time in the patent office most.