Einsteins Display of Giftedness: Time Answers All Questions (National Development)

There are differences in the way the gifted and non gifted think. Gifted people have inner worlds that most other people are not going to experience nor truly understand. Their brains and neural connectivity allow them to use all of their senses and sensitivities to envision things that others cannot. Giftedness is a qualitatively and quantitatively different life and world through deeper understanding of one's environment (1st, 2nd, 3rd layers of understanding). Greater development of this population leads to higher national development. Practical World Problems

For example, a gifted child (...and by extension adults) may take on nick names  like "space cadet", "specigram", "radars" or "they dopey one" because people see them as spacing or "heads in clouds" thinking. While this spacing out seems useless they are processing on a deep neural level that allows them to see and understand connections between events in their world in ways that only observation alone cannot. 

The processing creates models and such models are predictive by nature. Thus deep thought has a purpose in theory and model creation because it helps one see the relationships between elements. A type of eagles eye or intuitive understanding. It takes time to think of many possibilities and then prune them back to find a needle in a haystack solution. Duke university has an blog post on the richness of Gifted Imagination.

Einstein was a gifted person who invented a many great things by simply thinking about them and determining the possibilities. That would be nearly impossible if they didn't have that ability to tap inner resources and create new networks. It is called the gifted curse because of deep moral sentiments and high capacity often across multiple if not all intelligences that often leads to chronic misunderstandings. Curse or Blessing?

Dabrowski developed a theory of overexcitability helps understand how positive disintegration creates pathways to growth that others are unlikely to achieve. Theory of Positive Disintegration Life experience/environment and their ability to develop these multiple, and in rare cases all, intelligences determines manifestation of genius. Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Fostering that in the Digital Era where innovation and creativity in human capital is likely to make profound new discoveries is important for long term success of a nation and its people. University of Connecticut runs the National Research Center for Gifted and Talented where they delve into a model of Three Ring Conception of Giftedness.

Time answers all questions. I guess that is relative depending on who you ask. "I think therefore I am" René Descartes