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Cheeky Rebelliousness
Walter Isaacson, on Albert Einstein, from his new book, Einstein: His Life and Universe: "His slow development was combined with a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one schoolmaster to send him packing and another to declare that he would never amount to much."
Three loud cheers to "cheeky rebelliousness"—a trait shared by approximately 99.99% of those who make it into the history books.
(Alas, many of those who might, these days, make it into the history books have been dosed early and often with Ritalin.)
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Can I get an Amen. We are just right-brained individuals. Be who you are, not who you are not.
Posted by Jason at April 11, 2007 9:16 AM
How many potential Einsteins will live out their lives under a warm blanket of psychoactive drugs because some teacher decided they were "difficult" and some physician could get a better reimbursement from the insurance company by sticking a needle in them than by giving them a thorough examination.
Posted by Wally Bock at April 11, 2007 11:19 AM
I was never dosed with anything as a child, I guess because it wasn't "in" back then. But, I was never a difficult student, either. However, in my career(s) I have made it my fever-eyed, vibrating brain, evangelical PURPOSE to be that rogue project leader, pain in the ass, thorn in the side, rebel without a clue in order to wake up the organization. I've made a lot of people uncomfortable and a lot of enemies, but also a lot of converts and a lot of progress where I've been the voice of unreason.
Please, don't assume there is a direct connection, or even a correlation, between the use of calming medications and the lack of rebels in our midst. Try to be a little more empirical in your assertions. It is especially important for us rebels to be absolutely, one hundred percent, rock bottomed and copper sheathed certain of the facts before uttering potentially rebellious statements.
Posted by Red Island Rhodes at April 11, 2007 2:19 PM
If Ritalin had been invented in the early 1900's we would have never been given the gift of Winston Churchill either.
Posted by Doug at April 27, 2007 9:49 AM