Review: Not enough work on the subject
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
The author forgot the first rule he proposes in his book: he did not spend 10,000 hours working at this. The biography of Tesla proposed is more poor than what you find on Wiki, there are no sources quoted, no bibliography, no original thinking, no reading of original sources, no analysis of the patents, no discovery of how the patents are linked to each other. All this is important if you want to track how a genius works. And as there were no women in Tesla's life, there is nothing much to learn.It seems that the intention of the book is to encourage our creativity. Tesla may not be the most encouraging example as people cheated on him and made him miserable all his life. It is like saying: we should all be musicians and then talk only about Webern who was killed by mistake in 1945. Or tell us to become a philosopher followed by a list of all the philosophers that were murdered through history. The example does not make sense in context. But of course Tesla's name attracts readers.The idea that everybody could be a genius is not true. The idea that imagination and the capacity to make links between unrelated notions suffice is not sustainable.I credit the author with a generous mind: he would like everybody to be bright, that is a rare quality. His ideas deserve more real research.