albert einsteinCreativity expert Michael Michalko recently wrote
an excellent article, "How Geniuses Think" that explains what
separates geniuses from the rest of the world.  Michalko points
out that geniuses don't necessarily have the highest IQs, but
they simply know how to think differently.  Regular people think
reproductively, he says, which is the concept of revisiting
ideas and solutions that have worked in the past.  Geniuses, on
the other hand, think productively, always looking at problems
in new ways.  Michalko pored over research on geniuses and
hashed out some ways they think differently from the rest:  They
look at problems in ways no one else has.   "Leonardo da Vinci
believed that to gain knowledge about the form of problems, you
begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways.
With this is a deeper understanding of the problem."
"Einstein's theory of relativity is, in essence, a description
of the interaction between different perspectives."  They
express themselves in lots of