Nikola Tesla was a hyper-polyglot who could speak eight languages including: Serbian, English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin. His memory was so remarkable it’s said that even in his later years was able to recite by heart long mathematical formulas, and many of the world’s most famous heroic poetry in their original languages. Some of his favorite poems to quote were Goethe’s “Faust,” Njegoš’ “The Mountain Wreath,” Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” and Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin.” Tesla inherited his extraordinary memory from his father who Tesla once said could recite from memory many of the classical books from his time, and if they ever got destroyed could rewrite them in their original form. Tesla’s father also helped him in his mental development by testing young Tesla in all sorts of exercises–as Tesla said, “guessing one another’s thoughts, discovering the defects of some form or expression, repeating long sentences or performing mental calculations. These daily lessons were intended to strengthen memory and reason and especially to develop the critical sense, and were undoubtedly very beneficial.”
He also claimed to have had a eidetic memory and thought process that caused much stress and trouble for him as a child, and often times his sisters had to help him distinguish images that were from his mind as opposed to things that were real. These images from his past would effectively block out real-life objects and interfere with Tesla’s thought patterns. It would take several years and a strong power of will until Tesla was able to take control over his eidetic memory and thought processes which would ultimately help Tesla in forming a new invention methodology. Instead of rushing into newly formed ideas and expending physical energy and work through trial and error, Tesla would simply work through the possible outcomes in his own mind. He would initiate his design process, “build” his devices (making mental changes in construction along the way), theoretically test them so extensively that he’d even see actual wear in the apparatuses, improve them to perfection until ready for functional operation—all in his own mind. After this mental process, he would transpose his imaginary work into reality, and each device would inevitably emerge as an exact replication of what he had constructed in his head. This was the epitome of Nikola Tesla’s engineering and inventive process.
Tesla would later self-analyze his cognitive thought process, and form a new notion of “thought recording.” Based on the experiences throughout his life, he came to the conclusion that this remarkable way of processing thoughts and ideas was due to an unusual excitation on his retina which would cause the appearance of certain images projected before his normal vision. He believed that if a smart and innovative scientist , or inventor, could create a way to interfere with this process of the eye, then images could be projected from the minds of individuals onto a screen.
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