The 'phony' habit of geniuses in history

Albert Einstein walked around the house naked, Nikola Tesla wiped spoons 18 times to eat, Charles Dickens combed hundreds of times a day . were "weird" habits of geniuses.

Few people doubt that many writers, politicians, scientific researchers have some strange habits that help them to develop many bright ideas. It would be flawed if not mentioning American writer - Jack Kerouac had to find alcohol to 'liberate the soul' , creating literary inspiration or poet Thomas Stearns Eliot also had the habit of applying chalk to his face and filling green; Friedrich von Schiller sought poetry from the smell of rotten apples.

The question that many people wonder is that these strange habits create geniuses, or the 'talent' has created an extraordinary 'handicap' in those people. Let's review some weird habits of geniuses through the article below.

1. Novelist Charles Dickens - comb his hair hundreds of times a day

Dubbed as one of the greatest writers of Queen Victoria, English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) possessed many strange habits. One employee revealed that Charles could not stand the 'disordered' hair , so he always had to put a comb close and brush his head hundreds of times a day.

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Besides, he has a habit of going back and forth while composing and reading to the secretary. After that, the two also had to ponder each sentence many times, change the words accordingly and change the order of the words in the sentence before starting to write.

Dickens's life and work experts say his case is a mild manifestation of the more severe obsessive-compulsive disorder , which is epilepsy .

2. Inventor Thomas Edison - sleeps a lot every day

Before becoming the research associates of Thomas Edison (1847 - 1932), they had to undergo a rigorous round of interviews, which was to eat a bowl of soup under the observation of the talented inventor. He will watch to see if they add salt to the soup before eating.

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Edison will immediately remove salt-makers who have not tasted them at all. According to him, this test aimed at eliminating beginners but gave too many theories.

Edison also tried to reduce the essential needs as much as possible, such as sleeping. He divided his sleep into multiple sleeps to get more time to work.

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Unlike normal people who sleep for 6-8 hours continuously, he breaks up into many naps during the day

Polyphasic sleep is a method for people who want more time to do other things, thus increasing productivity. In addition to Thomas Edison, the genius Leonardo Da Vinci also applies this sleeping method.

3. Nikola Tesla inventor - wipe spoons with 18 new handkerchiefs

Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) is the father of more than 300 inventions such as electromagnets, radios, asynchronous motors . Tesla usually starts working at 3am and continues until 11pm.

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This habit caused him to become depressed at the age of 25. However, he quickly recovered and continued this regime until he was old, working for 38 years non-stop.

Besides, he was single and made friends with pigeons. Telsa also has secret fears, that is, overweight women and jewelry (especially pearls).

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He was afraid of overweight women

Moreover, he did not dare to shake hands for fear of bacteria . Whenever eating, the inventor had to clean knives, forks and spoons with exactly 18 handkerchiefs made from linen and then reassured to enjoy his meal.

4. Doctor Sigmund Freud - befriends the "brown fairy"

Austrian psychologist and psychologist - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) brought insights into the subconscious. Through it, he also helps psychologists to get easier access to patients. But few know that the badness of this perfect-looking person is nicotine and cocaine .

He began to be addicted to these stimulants very early and continued to smoke. Freud's close friend and doctor warned him that smoking a daily cigar can cause a very dangerous heart rhythm disorder.

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Freud tried to quit but soon fell into depression. He once said : 'Immediately after quitting, my heart is even worse than it used to be, the mood is not always peaceful because of the images of death, farewell to the repetition.'

Finally, Freud had to return to the 'brown fairy' and once smoked a large amount of cocaine. He even had to undergo 33 mouth and jaw surgeries to remove cancer cells but still gave good praises to this 'miracle material' .

5. Writer Honore de Balzac - drink 50 cups of coffee a day

The real French writer - Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) had such a passion for coffee that one day he could drink up to 50 cups and seldom take a nap during the creation of the novel 'Tan game of life'. .

He even spends an article praising the 'beauty' of coffee in a beautiful and poetic prose: 'This coffee poured into your stomach and immediately created a commotion. The idea of ​​starting operations like battalions in a battle '.

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Honore de Balzac calls coffee 'great strength in life' , thanks to this drink he can survive with a 'deadly' schedule: go to bed at 6pm, wake up at 1am and work until 8am, then take a nap for a while before continuing to write for 7 hours.

He drank a lot to maintain his work speed and even ate coffee powder while his stomach was empty. As a result, Honore de Balzac wrote 85 novels in 20 years and died at the age of 50.

Many people speculated that his death was caused by labor and drinking too much coffee, while there were hypotheses that he died of hypertension and atherosclerosis.

6. Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu - the idea comes when the brain lacks oxygen

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For 74 years of his life, Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu has owned 3,300 patents, the most famous of which are floppy disks. Many of Nakamatsu's products were born in the context of his near drowning . This eminent inventor believes in the benefits of lack of oxygen when humans are underwater.

He said: 'For the brain to lack oxygen, you need to dive very deep and about 1.5 seconds before dying, I can imagine a new invention' . Then he wrote this idea into waterproof paper and swam.

One more key to Nakamatsu's success was the idea in a 24kara gold-filled room. According to him, this golden layer could prevent radio waves and radio 'harmful to the creative process'.

The mathematician Pythagoras hates beans

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Pythagoras mathematician.(Photo: Prezi.com)

Dubbed "the father of vegetarianism ", Greek mathematician Pythagoras was completely devoid of meat, eating only vegetables . However, this genius has no love for legumes. He refused to eat bean-related things, even banning his students from eating or touching them.

No one knows whether these grudges stem from Pythagoras's health or religious beliefs. But it was this aversion that caused the genius mathematician's death.

According to documents, attackers ambushed Pythagoras but he would rather die than run through a field of beans.

Albert Einstein walked around the house naked

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The genius scientist Albert Einstein.(Photo: Quotesgram.com)

As a child, Einstein was a foolish, slow-talking child. Even so, the scientist later said that slow development gave him many opportunities to think about basic elements such as space and time. Curiosity about those things made him always ask strange questions and lead to breakthroughs like relativity .

The driver of the scholar told him, he saw firsthand that Einstein's house picked up a grasshopper on the ground and put it in the mouth to chew.

Einstein did not want to lose money for those who cut their hair, so he often asked his wife to cut him off. He especially likes to eat eggs and at least 2 at a time, can be fried eggs or north eggs.

He is also very addicted to eating mushrooms and eating up to 3 times a day. The genius maid also said that Einstein had a strange hobby of naked and walking around the house .

" Maybe he doesn't care about wearing clothes or maybe he doesn't remember not wearing anything yet, " the maid said.