Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
-- Albert Einstein
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Because a bicycle has its wheels one in front of the other, it cannot stay upright without support It has to lean on something, or something has to prop up the bicycle.
However, there is one way a bicycle can stay upright: locomotion with help from its rider. As long as the bicycle remains in motion, it will maintain its balance. When the motion stops, the bicycle falls to the ground.
Life can be like the bicycle. If we stay in place, we go nowhere. If we begin to ride the bicycle slowly, we move forward in a wobbly fashion. If we ride the bicycle faster, then it moves forward in a steady manner just waiting for us to guide its direction. We can stay with our lives as-is and just deal with the same routines. Or we can make changes which, while uncomfortable at first, help us move forward in life closer to where we want to be.
Some (More) Information about Albert Einstein
When Einstein was a young boy, he would encounter two things he would later describe as "wonders:"
- the compass, because it was his first conscious encounter with electromagnetism; and
- a geometry book, which he could call his "sacred little geometry book"
Although his parents were secular Jews, Jewish in name only, Albert himself became deeply religious when he was 12 years old. He stayed this way for a few years until he read science books which contradicted his religious beliefs. This left him with a deep, lasting impression about the challenge to authority: Who was right?
For years he was down on his Prussian-style education because it was rote and it stfled creative thinking. This educational environment was so bad for him that one of his teachers told him that he would never amount to anything. (Famous last words.)
Later in his secondary school education, Einstein was influenced by a frequent family dinner guest, a young student in medical student anmed Max Talmud (to be known later as Max Talmey). Being an informal tutor to the younger Einstein, it was he who introduced him to the subjects of higher mathematics and philosophy.
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