![]() ![]() ![]() He was not only a genius he was an interesting guy. ![]() By the time he was in his 80’s, he lived a reclusive life in a New York hotel, nearly penniless. Brilliant but not a great negotiator, nor someone good at shepherding wealth. Tesla was fluent in English, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, German, French, Italian, and Latin. That was just one of the hundreds of inventions he patented. By the time he was in his twenties, he invented a totally new way to power motors. Tesla was smart, exceedingly so, from a young age. They lived in a small Croatian village where their neighbors were Roman Catholic. His family was poor, Serbian, his father a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was born in 1856 at the stroke of midnight during a lightening storm, it would prove prophetic as his life was often tied to harnessing the power of electricity in ways unimagined during his era. Yet sometimes he was overtaken by compulsions, eccentricity. Tesla had bucket loads of all three! There is no denying he possessed genius, he was one of the most intelligent people to walk planet earth. Michel de Montaigne said “ Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness”. ![]()
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