Hi folks I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist. -Brad Heineck physical therapist.
Together we are the most famous physical therapists on the internet-in our opinion of course Bob.
Again as part of our self-improvement series trying to make ourselves better as we go along through our long lives,
we're gonna talk about the one trait every genius possesses,
and what I like about this is you can also add it to your life to become more genius-like.
Exactly and you know, it's nothing, I don't think it's going to be a big surprise, but it's something that's not always easy to do.
No it's not easy to do at all but before we gotta keep people hanging a little bit here.
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Alright, so if we can put that down. All right, moving back to the topic at hand Brad.
I'm a big fan of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett,
and they actually gather together every year at this kind of conference thing.
At one year, they ask all the participants who were there to take a piece of paper,
don't show the answer yet.-Oh no.-You want to be Bill Gates?
Well, you know, I was gonna say I watched him on YouTube, they're interviewing him.
What I like about both of them,
they're like really down-to-earth people. -Yes, they are.-Like the richest people in the world
and I saw Bill Gates, he's driving an SUV that the average person drives
and they're both sitting there with you know garments like we're wearing.
Well and he's dedicated his life to philanthropy too so,
Sure yeah-giving away money-Yeah, thank you.-So anyway, they both wrote down their answer.
Write down your answer Brad.-Oh, yes. Just wait.
Alright give me-Oh you want a writing apparatus.
Okay, and the answer was well, come on man, people are watching!-I'd like to underline it Bob.
Emphasis, I'm focusing.-There we go. And that's the answer, isn't it?
Focus-yeah, and they both if you read like their biographies,
you will find out that they were focused on their specific topic for a long time.
So, you know, this is something in our ADD society.
It's very difficult for most people to do but if you take the person non-focused versus the person that can focus,
that person's gonna have a great leg up on the others.
So I'm gonna give you some examples.
Steve Hoffman, probably never heard of him, unknown professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
He solved a math problem that had stumped his peers for 40 years, and it was called Cato's conjecture and
this was like considered to be the Holy Grail if you could solve this. So he started in the year 1996,
and he actually solved it in 2000, so four years and the thing that struck me about the article about him is that
he would think about this thing all the time.
He focused on it two to eight hours a day,
while he's in the shower, while he's biking, he thought about it continuously.
So here's--I don't know how smart this guy is, but I mean
there's been some really smart guys to come through in the last 40 years and they weren't able to do it and he could,
in like you said 4 years and they've been working on it for--other minds have been working on it for a total of 40.
Focus. Yeah, I'm gonna give you an example from the animal world Brad.
Okay-so I thought--I saw this, thought it was really cool.
This was how they pick out dogs for drug-sniffing.-Oh, I thought you're gonna talk about like you and I animals.
I have no idea where you went with that but anyways,
so they go into a kennel and there's a whole bunch of dogs and what they're looking for,
they'll bring a ball and they're looking for the dog that just is so focused on that ball no matter where,
no matter where it goes. They want it, they want that ball.
And then eventually what they do is they actually substitute in drugs
for that ball, and then of course when that dog, you know is set up upon a truck or something to look it over,
he's just--he wants those drugs because he's focused. He's got that personality.
It's oftentimes in their genes and you know,
Yeah, either you have it or you don't to some extent with dogs so,
but if you yourself can become more focused and learned to you know, focus on your topic,
you're gonna become a lot more successful. We'll give you another example.
In 1944, Hans Asperger, you may have heard of Asperger's syndrome.
Hans or Hans?-Hans. You got it right.-There you go.
He was an Austrian psychiatrist and pediatrician
and he observed four children who had these social deficits and communication skill deficits.
But what he did notice about him is that they had these obsessive interests in objects,
to the exclusion of all others like they might be interested in vacuum cleaners or cars or
you know a lot of people know the movie Rain Man and what was he all obsessed with?
Well, he was obsessed with numbers.- Right.-He is obsessed with K-mart.-Right.
He is obsessed with-Judge Wapner-Judge Wapner that's right-and Wheel of Fortune I think to so,
According again to the movie, kind of the key was focused on those areas
to the exclusion of everything else,
What I found interesting about this is though they considered--he'd call these kids little professors,
because again, they became so focused on one area,
they actually became very talented in the area, and I've known some people with Asperger's.
A friend of mine has a nephew and he got his PhD in Biochemistry
because again, he loved chemistry.-Right.
So you know, it's not a death sentence, mean, with Asperger's syndrome.
In fact, they've thought for a while some of the great minds like even Einstein might have had Asperger's but
I don't think they did.
The fact that they even thought that shows you the importance that they put on focus.-Right.
So, alright last example. Gotta give you a sports example.
So maybe many of you older people may have heard of Pete Maravich, Pistol Pete.
So he was one of the greatest scoring guards in history.
He averaged at LSU in college 44.2 points a game. That's almost unbelievable,
and there was no three-point shot at that time.-Yeah that would probably bring it up at around 60 points.
Yeah, who knows?
I mean, I don't know how much of a long--how much he took behind the arc but,
so anyway, but what's interesting about him when I read about him too is that when he was a kid,
during the winter months he was going to school
he'd practice four hours a day of basketball, which isn't that unusual but
during the summer he'd practice eight to eight and a half hours a day.-Just shooting hoops.-Just shooting hoops.
I mean, what kid does that? You know, I mean that's a focused obsessed kid. And I mean it led to success.-Sure
So anyway-Bob-oh go ahead.
You know, I think for the average person like well, not that well, I guess we're average, right?
Anyways focus is a good thing but you know, you have to focus on like four or five aspects of your life,
so you can't just focus on your work and forget about your wife.
You can't just focus on your wife and forget about your children, you know so.
You can balance it. -You can focus on the area and kind of give it
you know, a little more attention than other things.
I mean, I'm gonna give the example of YouTube Brad.
I mean when we started with YouTube I was focused on it.
-I brought this example up before, my wife was like,
what are you doing up there? What are you doing on that computer?
And why are you doing that?-Right.
Right so we're gonna take certain parts of the day and we're gonna focus
on this so that-Exactly if you can even take an hour or two a day and focus on one thing,
you're gonna be a success in life.
I know I talked to you about if I can go to the library,
or somewhere quiet. If I'm working on a video and my wife comes down and starts talking about me, I'm shot.
I can't--I have to focus it and let everything else go away.
So-no that's a really good example -That's why I go to the library.
People thought libraries are dead. So, alright. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for focusing on us.
Thank you.