My Dear Albert ... A Letter From A Father to His Son

“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”

In 1915, aged thirty-six, Einstein was living in Wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 of that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international celebrity and historical glory, his theory of general relativity, Einstein sent 11-year-old Hans Albert the following letter:

Thanks to www.fresherair.net for the find and www.brainpickings.org for the added research.

The thing you are doing now, the thing you do when you are supposed to be doing something, the thing you do to waste the time, that is your true passion.  #followit