Tag: genius
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The New Nature-Nurture Argument
As it stands, the nature-nurture debate is wrong, proposes David Shenk in his book on the subject, The Genius in All of Us. Shenk submits the idea that we overestimate the effect genes have on many heritable traits, especially intelligence (or that ever-elusive ‘genius’). According to Shenk, and he is persuasive, none of this stuff…
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Deliberate Practice Breeds Genius
I initially thought that this was just going to be another superfluous variation on the 10,000 hours themeĀ (from Malcolm Gladwell’s latest, Outliers). OK, so while it actually is that,Ā David Brooks’ look at how to forge modern creative genius is still fairly interesting. Coyle describes a tennis academy in Russia where they enact rallies without a…