Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE ANSWERS ARE CHANGING
After giving an advanced test to a graduate class of physics students
at Princeton University, Albert Einstein was on the way back to his
office when one of his graduate assistants asked the famous profes-
sor, “Dr. Einstein, wasn’t that the same exam that you gave to this
physics class last year?”
Dr. Einstein nodded and said, “Yes, it was the same exam as
last year.”
The graduate assistant summoned up his courage to ask the
great Nobel prizewinning physicist, “But, Dr. Einstein, how could
you give the same test two years in a row?”
“Because,” Einstein replied, “in the last year, the answers
have changed.”
In the same way, your answers are changing today at a more
rapid rate than ever before. The answers in your field are changing
as you sit there. What was true a year ago may not be true today,
and what is true today may not be true a year from now. The only
way that you can be assured of staying on top of your field is by con-
tinually taking in new ideas and knowledge to compare it with what
you know today.