“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

I must share today my recent encounters with Albert Einstein, because in the past 3 weeks he’s presented himself with highly positive energy no less than a half-dozen times. First, on Monday, as I left the lobby of the Soho Grand Hotel, he had the audacity to stick out his tongue at me from across the street.  I figured it was time in my space-time continuum to write about the synchronicity of my Einstein moments.

Forbes magazine blog contributor August Turak the gave a nod to Einstein on July 17th in his well-written article, The 11 Leadership Secrets You’ve Never Heard About. After that worthy read, Einstein waved a wrench in my face from the side of a plumbing company truck.

The previous week he caught my eye at a novelty store on Madison Avenue by appearing on a “relatively delicious” Einstein’s Energy Bar. (Copy on the package suggested that if the entire mass of the bar were converted to usable energy – for which, of course, there is no known method – I could jog to the sun and back 100 times or power the entire U.S. for two years.)

Before that I got an email from BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) announcing its commissioned revival of “Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts” for the institution’s 30^th Next Wave Festival this fall. Earlier still, but after the 4^th of July, while viewing BAM’s 150^th Anniversary Archive Exhibition in the lobby of its main building, I was struck by the cover of a teacher’s guide titled “The Amazing Einstein,” a children’s education program BAM presented in the ‘70s.

In the event you don’t click on the photo to enlarge the copy, here’s the quote that jumped out at me:

“The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap – call it intuition or what you will – and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.”  – Albert Einstein

I admit I’ve had Einstein on the brain since the discovery of the Higgs boson, announced with a bang in Geneva on the 4^th of July. I imagined Einstein with a glass of champagne toasting with scientists around this once-elusive particle’s existence as evidence of a field that extends throughout the universe giving mass to everything in it. For the Higgs discoveries support Einstein’s Unified Field Theory of continuous structures.

A man of incredible imagination, Einstein humbly said, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” I stand with vigilante curiosity alongside those physicists today who continue to to chip away at the mysteries of nature in hopes of explaining the nature of reality.

Tags: Albert Einstein, Higgs boson, human energy, leadership, leadership skills, managing yourself, personal effectiveness, positive energy, quantum physics

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