How to Win the Nobel Prize

Do you want to know how to win a Nobel Prize? There, are attributes that many Nobel Prize Winners share, and there are distinct attributes that Nobel Peace Prize winners share. By learning some of their qualities, you can win a Nobel Prize, just as they did.

The Nobel Prize is an award given each year to persons or organizations in Medicine, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, and Peace. It takes many years of labor from a qualified individual, along with many qualified nominations. The prestigious reward includes a medal, diploma, and a monetary award. For the year 2007, that is ten million dollars.

That is a lot of money. Oftentimes, these funds will be donated or used to further study or pursue the winner's efforts.

Why is it that most of today's average Joe or Josephine put many years of labor into our society, our relationships, and our families, and we do not win an award? What is the secret to winning the prize, and can I have or do I have those qualities already?

There are many attributes that most, if not all, Nobel Prize Lacerates have in common-they love to read and enjoy the finer things in life. Nobel Peace Prize Lacerates, respectively, have a distinct need for symbolisms of goodwill. They read almost anything they could get their hands on: classics, comics, volumes of encyclopedias. The finer enjoyments of life in their free time included poetry, music, art, and nature. Many of them fed their soul on religion.

Let's take a look at what at some of those qualities are, pick up a few habits from them, and see if we have what it takes to win the Nobel Prize.

They read, read, read
One thing found in common with all Nobel Laureates is that they read a lot, most of them fond of the library, reading almost anything they could get their hands on: classics, comics, volumes of encyclopedias, and in their spare time enjoyed poetry, music, art and nature. Many of them were religious.

What exactly are they reading?
They read all about it. The classics, the bible, adventures, musical scores, stock quotations, anything they could get their hands on. Take a look.

Carl E. Wieman, winner in Physics 2001, was glad his family did not have a TV. His friends had one, but he spent his time at the library.

Harry M. Mrkowitz, winner of economic sciences 1990, knew there wasn't always serious reading required. He was fond of reading comics.

J. Robin Warren, winner in Physiology or Medicine 2005, read boy's adventure--new and classics, and all 12 volumes of The Oxford Junior Encyclopedia.

Musicians-Llya Prigogine, winner in Chemistry 1977, had the ability to read musical scores before he could read words in print.

Wladyslaw Reymont, winner in Literature 1924, carried books under his clothes whenever he could. He read Augustine, the Bible, and the Church Fathers, for what seemed like eternity.

Gary S. Becker, winner in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992, began reading to his father stock quotations.

Win with words. There is nothing like the feeling after a good reading. Inner peace is sanctioned after reading a good book. It is good for the mind and soul. We may not win reading someone's stock quotes, but helping someone else is at the micro level of peace and charity.

Enjoy the finer things in life.
Another thing found in common with all Nobel Prize Winners is how they spent their free time.

What exactly are they doing?
They are singing and eating candy bars. Take another look here.

Czeslaw Milosz, winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980, enjoyed poetry.

Donald J. Cram, winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987, sang in the choir.

John B. Fenn, winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002, spent many winter weekend afternoons with a good book and an apple or a candy bar.

William D. Phillips, winner of The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997, loved fishing, baseball, bike riding, and tree climbing.

Richard Axel, winner of The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004, played Stickball, a type of baseball with a pink ball and broom handle.

Win with enjoyment. When was the last time you took time for a hobby or a restful day? We may not win a Nobel Prize for playing with pink, but we need a clear restful mind to find and create peace.

Quench their thirst on symbols of goodwill.
Nobel Peace Prize winners, respectively, and especially, fulfill a need to see symbols of their hard work, the work that has been deeply rooted internally for so long. Unlike other Nobel Prize winners, they do not have the ability to hold or display their accomplishments. The winner has a darting desire for clear symbols. Look at this image.

What exactly is that?
They hold onto golden things. Although there is other ways to win peace prize awards, to win the Nobel Peace Prize is the most prestigious. They want to hold a tangible symbol in their hands to capture the moral essence that the winner has created from heart. They have fed the hungry, stopped wars, and tried to save Mother Earth, but they remain blind to the extent of their goodwill to human kind.

Win with goodwill. We can carry symbols of our own. The most universally understood and accepted gesture that all nations over the globe appreciate-is a smile. We can share a smile with a neighbor, friend, stranger, or even foe, and see the humanitarian effort of goodwill to one another. It can resolve conflicts and create peace within seconds. We may or may not win a Nobel Prize, but passing on a warm smile is priceless, and it is one step closer to getting there.