Engineers

Interesting thing that I came across while reading a book about geotechnical engineering education around the world.

"Engineers with an outstanding ingenious creativity are mostly 'criss-cross thinkers', which is not necessarily the same as "think-tank" members. Criss-cross thinkers are even more successful then "regular" geniuses because

• they are not afraid of committing errors or failures,
• they consider all possibilities,
• they rely on their intuition,
• they have manifold interests,
• they think positively, and
  
• they take time to relax."

I like the sound of this, especially the last two! haha. Of course, this was preceded by a reference to how hard "geniuses" work and that Edison worked 18-hr days most of his life. And after the quoted text above, the paper mentions that geotechnical engineering involves a lot more risk than any other branch of civil engineering because of the uncertainty.