@sei.come.sei: The myth is that Einstein was a lonely genius born with a supercomputer for a brain. Walter Isaacson's biography, written from his newly opened archives, tells a different story. He was an impertinent patent clerk who could not land a teaching job. His breakthroughs came not from raw intellect but from character: curiosity, rebellion, and an imagination he never let grow up. Isaacson pulled these from Einstein's own letters and papers. The book is the full mind. Credit and inspiration: Walter Isaacson via his biography *Einstein: His Life and Universe*