Which of these was not one of Einstein’s habits?
1. Drinking caffeine free coffee
2. Building houses of cards
3. Never wearing socks
4. Sailing
5. Writing letters
6. Listening to Wagner and Debussy’s music with
pleasure
7. Joining Christmas carolers on his violin
8. Sleeping 10 hours a day
9. Walking over 2 miles every day
Which of these was not a habit of Steve Jobs?
1. Going on walking meetings to brainstorm
2. Dining at Jin Sho Sushi restaurant in
Palo Alto every night
3. Waking up at 6 a.m. every day
4. Asking people for things or resources he lacked
or needed
5. Driving a Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG
6. Practicing Zen Buddhism
7. Wearing black mock turtlenecks
8. Taking his family to Kona Village in Hawai every
year
9. Eating sushi and soba
10. Rehearsing relentlessly on stage for
presentations
11. Eating carrots
Which of these was not a habit of Beethoven?
1. Daydreaming
2. Improvising
3. Falling out with his teachers
4. Publishing his own music
5. Walking every afternoon
6. Counting 60 coffee beans for every cup of coffee
he drank in the morning
7. Studying music under Mozart
8. Annoying his landlord by causing water to drip through the floor onto the living room
below because of the way he took his baths
9. Retiring to bed early
Which of these habits is not associated with
Andy Warhol?
1. Regularly clearing his house and getting rid of
stuff
2. Sporting a wide variety of wigs
3. Calling the same friend at 9 a.m. every day to
dictate the previous day’s events
4. Drawing movie stars
5. Sending body doubles to lecture for him
6. Volunteering at homeless shelters
7. Painting each of his fingernails in a different color
8. Hosting coloring parties
9. Recording his thoughts and conversations with
people on tape
Which of these habits is not true of Mahatma Gandhi?
1. Fasting
2. Wearing a dhoti
3. Running home from school as a boy so he wouldn't
have to talk to anybody
4. Practicing non-violence
5. Switching hands while writing
6. Spinning cotton by hand
7. Practicing celibacy
8. Enjoying a good drink and a hearty meal
9. Writing
10. Protesting through marches
11. Reading
12. Amateur boxing
Bonus Question: Can you guess who this is by
looking at this list of habits?
1. Eats according to Dr. Richard Bernstein's book
The Diabetes Solution
2. Watches Tom Bilyeu podcasts on YouTube
3. Gifts the book Tools of the Titans by Tim Ferris to young
people
4. Meditates regularly
5. Has long talks on the telephone
6. Bounds up the stairs for exercise
7. Checks out 10-30 books from the library
8. Watches old Hollywood movies like Talk of the
Town
9. Blogs
10. Practices intermittent fasting from time to time
11. Sleeps on a mattress on the floor
12. Spends time people watching rather than going on rides
at amusement parks
Answers:
Einstein:
6. Listening to Wagner and Debussy’s music with
pleasure. Einstein did not like either of these composers and their music
provoked his disgust.
Steve Jobs:
2. Having dinner at Jin Sho Sushi restaurant in
Palo Alto every night.
Steve Jobs had dinner at home with his family every
night.
Andy
Warhol:
1. Regularly clearing his house and getting rid
of stuff.
Andy Warhol was a famous hoarder. The Warhol in Pittsburgh is a 7 floor museum
dedicated to the stuff he collected over his lifetime. In the last 13 years of
his life Andy deliberately created 610 boxes of stuff, which he referred to as time
capsules. Contents included flyers from galleries,
junk-mail, fan-letters, gallery-invitation cards, unopened letters,
solicitations for work, freebie LPs, a lump of concrete, eccentric pornographic
assemblages by Warhol's friends and associates, thousands of used postage
stamps that the artist tore from envelopes, packets of sweets and unopened
Campbell's soup tins, now open and on display at The Warhol.
Mahatma
Gandhi:
8. Enjoying a good drink and a hearty meal. Mahatma Gandhi was a teetotaler and an ascetic when it came to his
meals.
Beethoven:
7. Studying music under Mozart. Beethoven did not study under Mozart. He studied under other teachers, Joseph Haydn, notable among them. He fell out with most
of them, Joseph Haydn included.
Bonus
Question:
Mmm…..wonder who that is?
Hope you enjoyed this quiz.
Before you go, you should check out previous posts in which Steve Jobs, Gandhi and Einstein are featured or mentioned:
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Acknowledgements:
Thanks for
the feedback, (comments, likes, shares) on my recent posts. I appreciate the
kudos from old friends, new friends, and relatives who have become friends. You
keep me going.
NEXT,
thanks for sharing my journey to wisdom, meaning and a better life.
Like you, I am trying to find my way through this complex maze we call life,
and I am honored to have you share my journey, as I continue to seek the wisdom
hidden in plain sight.
FINALLY,
A Happy Birthday shout-out: to those with January birthdays. I
hope you will use your birthday month to think about your habits and decide which ones to keep and which ones to discard. If you can think of new habits to replace your old discarded habits with, it's a double win.
To
all my readers, have a blessed “doing good for yourself while doing good for
others week”, and see you next week.
1 comment:
An interesting way to focus on great peoples characteristics and their quirky habits! The last one, of course, is one of the foremost thinkers of our age, the inimitable Minoo Jha!
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