The Effects of Trauma

His accoomplishments were not enough. They mourned the loss of their son all their life. Because of this, Nikola was very insecure as a boy. The image of his brother's death followed him throughout his childhood. In moments, it would become so terrible and strong that he would'nt be able to get it out of his head. That was the time when he started training his conciousness.

At first, he would try to force himself to banish that unfortunate image from his memory by imagining objects from close proximity. At the age of twelve, he succeeded for the first time. This technique worked for a few times, but the trauma was stronger. It wouldn't be long before the vivid and almost real image of his brother would reappear in his head. Then Nikola had to force himself to imagine another object in detail and the image would disappear again. But the unfortunate image would soon return again. The boy had to constantly imagine more and more objects to suppress the trauma.

Finally, when he exhausted all objects in his little village Smiljan, he began to imagine distant worlds, cultures or people. Then he created events out of those image. He would later that the people he met during those mental journeys became as dear to him as those he met in the reality. Little Nikola would daydream and travel through his imaginary worlds all night long. But at the age of seventeen, everything changed.

Already a mature young man, he decided to direct his ability of detailed and vivid imagination into the creation of inventions. His mind was trained. When the idea dawned on him, his incredible capacity for imagination was already so strong that Nikola could independently put together a patent and test its funcionality. It was miraculous! He could imagine different machines so well that he could see the mistakes in his inventions before he even draw the schemes. After construction, the machines always worked. After twenty years of work and more than a hundred patents, there was not a single exception from that rule.

Everything he imagined, he first put to test in his mind and then he analyzed and fixed the problems. Only then he would create the machine which would always work perfectly. He would say: – The carrying out into practice of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. –

Nikola was a winner. The trauma he remembered all his life was exactly what made him a genius. He was unique. He directed his incredible ability of imagination for the progress of the entire human race. A few of his inventions include alternating current, radio, laser, refrigerator and hundreds of other items that were the basis for future inventions. Without Nikola Tesla, the 20th century would not have been a century of progress.