How to Think Like a Genius

Have you ever wondered how Einstein thought? Or how Michelangelo visualized his magnificent creations? Have you ever pondered the thoughts of Socrates? Or wanted to explore the mind of Plato?

These revolutionary minds tapped into their unbound potential. They unlocked the capabilities held within their 3-pound brain.

By its very design, the human brain stores vast potential for learning, memory, and creativity. However, the brain does not give its power away freely. You must learn to tap into your true potential.

God doesn’t give us formal instruction manuals for our brain. Therefore, we must explore the power of thought on our own. Let this article be your guide.

Listed below are four strategies that will enable you to think like Einstein, to tap into your creativity, and look at problems in new perspectives.

1. The first step is to expand your perspective.
The genius mind will look at a problem from many different angles. Most people only rely on their own perspective, and therefore always have a very narrow view of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you must begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He believed that the first way you look at a problem is entirely too biased. You are only seeing the problem from one perspective: yours.

Einstein once said, "You cannot solve a problem with the same type of thinking that is creating it."

By looking at a problem from different points of view, the problem is then restated and a solution can be discovered.

2. The second step to thinking like a genius is to Visualize!
Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla, and even Mozart all ascribed their creative genius to their ability to visualize.

Einstein said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by "combinatory play" with "images" in his mind. Einstein used images, visual patterns and associations to discover more about the world around him. He was often found using diagrams in order to restate the problem and approach it in a number of different ways.

Einstein believed that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. Instead, he turned to his own imagination and visualization.

Visualization is an incredibly powerful tool in solving problems. Often times much more powerful that simply using words or numbers.

3. The third key, and one of the most important elements to genius thinking is that of curiosity and the courage to ask questions.
As we grow older, however, we become passive to the world around us. We stop asking questions, lose our much of our curiosity, and the learning comes to a screeching halt.

Instead, we must embrace the imagination and curiosity of our childhood. We must never stop questioning the world around us.

Without questions, we cannot grow.

Albert Einstein once said,
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."

4. The last and final step in thinking like a genius is to Have Fun!
No person has achieved massive success by doing what they hate. Pablo Picasso once said, "When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired."

In addition, Dale Carnegie said, "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

The most successful people in life find work that inspires and excites them.


When you work simply for yourself or for your own personal gain your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of the undeveloped personal life; but when you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break bounds; your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new world, a great world, a wonderful world; dormant powers, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a larger man by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."