Albert Einstein's Incredible Work Ethic

Built around Ralph Morse's famous LIFE Magazine photograph of Einstein's cluttered desk, taken hours after the physicist's death on April 18, 1955. Einstein had been working on a speech for Israel's 7th anniversary that morning and refused a final experimental surgery, saying, "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Clear uses this to argue that everyone has a gift to contribute, that we should keep pouring ourselves into it until the end rather than retire on past success, and that our lives are meant for contribution, not consumption.