I was always looking out the window... I had what today's psychologists call "ADHD, primarily inattentive type."
I wasn't so much the kid who was bouncing uncontrollably off the walls, as the kid who sat there daydreaming, creating fantastical worlds inside my head. Remarkably, I was also able to focus on just enough of class to make it through school without too much trouble.
The Einstein story is a great example of imagination, applied!
"as the kid who sat there daydreaming, creating fantastical worlds inside my head"----Sounds like tools that make for a great writer to me ;)