One day my friend asked me：「In your opinion, what is success?」
「Money? Achievement? Reputation?」 These word first came into my mind.
I think about it for a long time and my answer is… Contribution.
Albert Einstein, A scientist I respect.
he is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E=MC^2, which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”, a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.
There wasn’t a proper test to measure Einstein’s IQ (Share from www.biography.com)
The problem is, nobody really can say for sure what Einstein’s IQ was. There’s no indication that he ever was tested. Indeed, IQ testing was still in its beginning stages in the early 1900s, when Einstein first emerged as a scientific luminary. Since then, the tests have evolved significantly. The maximum IQ score assigned by the WAIS-IV, a commonly-used test today, is 160. A score of 135 or above puts a person in the 99th percentile of the population. News articles often put Einstein’s IQ at 160, though it’s unclear what that estimate is based upon.
He published more than 300 scientific papers and more than 150 non-scientific works. His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word “Einstein” synonymous with “genius”. Eugene Wigner compared him to his contemporaries, writing that “Einstein’s understanding was deeper even than Jancsi von Neumann’s. His mind was both more penetrating and more original”.
This is what I call “contribution” and a successful person.
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