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My failure was that I would daydream some of the most amazing things, but without writing them down - they become ephemeral and I forget what I was designing in

My failure was that I would daydream some of the most amazing things, but without writing them down - they become ephemeral and I forget what I was designing in my head. It is said about Tesla - that he had such an incredible imagination that he could do fully complete design and engineering all in his head. I think that computers have stolen a lot of our ability to imagine complex and large projects. Look at all the great works of engineering and architecture that were done for thousands of years prior to the computer ; I think that the imagination and memory of all past generations were way stronger than ours are today.

LoganDark 4y ago
> It is said about Tesla - that he had such an incredible imagination that he could do fully complete design and engineering all in his head. > I think that computers have stolen a lot of our ability to imagine complex and large projects. Look at all the great works of engineering and architecture that were done for thousands of years prior to the computer ; I think that the imagination and memory of all past generations were way stronger than ours are today. It's possible that a lot of history's best engineers and inventors were neurodivergent. It is theorized that Einstein could have been autistic, for example, but there was no testing for that back in his day, so we will never know for sure. If these traits were actually neurodivergent qualities then it makes sense that you would rarely see them in neurotypicals.