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Nikola Tesla
Suspicious to the professors
While living in Gospić Nikola made a crossbow. He could hit the target more precisely with it than using the ordinary bow and arrow: "Thru the continuous tightening the bows I developed the skin on my stomach very much like that of a crocodile and I am often wondering whether it is due to this exercise I am able even now to digest cobblestones!" He was a good pupil. He was not good only in free drawing. As a child, Tesla was left handed, but later on, he learned to use both his hands. His favourite subject was math. He had an unusual skill of imagining a thing. Later on, the same thing would appear to him as alive and real. When he would be thinking about his inventions, he would almost never make notes but keep it all in his mind. Only in his later years did he start make notes. Should it be some algebra or arithmetic problem, Nikola would see an imagined panel with the task written on it, and all methods of corrected task solution would appear in rows. After all, ever since Tesla's time psychologists and parapsychologists researched those who, according to their reports, were able indeed to project their mental images onto the unexposed photograph film rolls. Direct transmission of thoughts onto the electronic devices has become the subject of recent researches as well.
In order to set himself free from images that pursued him as well as to feel at least a temporary relief, young Tesla began to fancy imaginary worlds. Every night he would set off on some imagined journey so that he could see new places, towns and countries, live there, meet people and make friends. For of his skills, sometimes he was even suspicious to his professors, because he could very quickly come to the correct answer to the given questions. Once, when he was in secondary school, his math professor gave him a lower mark. That hurt Tesla so much that he decided to make a complain to the school principal demanding to take the exam before a commission. During the examination, young Tesla was brilliant and got an excellent mark.
A knack of self-control
Nikola was a very gifted boy and soon he read all the books from the father's library. Therefore, he gladly accepted the offer to arrange Gospić's library. It was nice and easy money for him. His free time he spent in constructing water turbine and feeding young eagles that he kept in cage. When he finished the third grade of lower Real-Gymnasium in Gospić, Tesla became so severely ill and that it seemed as if he would die. Among many books that he was reading at the time were the earliest works of mark Twain. "To them might have been due the miraculous recovery which followed." Many years later when he met the famous writer and told him about that experience, he was so touched that he burst into tears.
As a young man Tesla imposed on himself a terrible discipline. Tesla said:" speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment, so much that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited of being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is equivalent to the labour, for I have devoted to it almost all my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the of worst idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts". Through reading, self controlled his will so his will and desire became one in time. "After some years of that discipline I completely controlled myself so that I could play with the passions might destroy even the strongest man".
All his life he was alone, never had a woman or a close friend. He succeeded in taking control over all his passions. At a time, for example, he passionately drank coffee and smoked cigarettes. Latter, when he had realised that those passions were perilous to his health, Nikola decided to quit both. Similar happened to gambling, what was his passion as well, and with time, even to food
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