The chair leg that Einstein sawed off.

He walks to the patent office every morning, to the fourth floor, and sits in his long and narrow office, working for eight hours. At that time, the patent office used long-legged chairs, which made many people form a habit: lean back, put their legs on the table and leisurely review the drawings. Einstein was not used to this. He would rather work at his desk nervously and intently.

One day, he brought a saw from home and sawed off part of the leg of the chair. According to his own habits, he can bury his whole body in the drawings on the table.

After checking the drawings every day, he used the time saved to do physics research that fascinated him. It was also during his working days in Bern that Einstein made fruitful scientific achievements. He put forward the light quantum hypothesis, which won the Nobel Prize, and the theory of relativity was born in this period, which opened a new era of physics.

When people are amazed at Einstein's genius, should they also learn from the legs of his sawed chair? All he sawed off was a leg of the chair.

No, he sawed off a comfortable working condition, so that he could concentrate on the work of the console table completely and would not slack off because of comfort. So, don't always stare at other people's achievements. More importantly, pick up your saw and cut off the slack.

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