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How are geniuses made?
– macleans.ca
THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS
Eric Weiner
Early in his career, Freud had his theories of psychoanalysis dismissed, even ridiculed; Einstein had difficulty obtaining his Ph.D. Both today are regarded as geniuses, but the term is selective, subjective and ever shifting. In his 2008 bestseller, The Geography of Bliss, Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, wanted to discover the mystery of happiness and did so with engaging writing and a sharp wit. His quest here is to understand how and why genius is fostered.
In the enduring debate of nature versus nurture, Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, argued that “natural abilities” were the key to explaining human achievement. Weiner disagrees. “There is no genius gene; one genius has yet to beget another,” he writes. His view is that genius is nurtured by a multitude of factors, political, social, economic and cultural at specific times and places.
The seven “places of genius,” he explores are all cities—ancient Athens; Hangzhou, China, in the 10th and 11th centuries; Florence during the Renaissance; 18th-century Edinburgh; Calcutta between 1840 and 1920; Vienna at the time of Mozart as well as of Freud a century later; and Silicon Valley today…
How are geniuses made?
– macleans.ca
THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS
Eric Weiner
Early in his career, Freud had his theories of psychoanalysis dismissed, even ridiculed; Einstein had difficulty obtaining his Ph.D. Both today are regarded as geniuses, but the term is selective, subjective and ever shifting. In his 2008 bestseller, The Geography of Bliss, Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, wanted to discover the mystery of happiness and did so with engaging writing and a sharp wit. His quest here is to understand how and why genius is fostered.
In the enduring debate of nature versus nurture, Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, argued that “natural abilities” were the key to explaining human achievement. Weiner disagrees. “There is no genius gene; one genius has yet to beget another,” he writes. His view is that genius is nurtured by a multitude of factors, political, social, economic and cultural at specific times and places.
The seven “places of genius,” he explores are all cities—ancient Athens; Hangzhou, China, in the 10th and 11th centuries; Florence during the Renaissance; 18th-century Edinburgh; Calcutta between 1840 and 1920; Vienna at the time of Mozart as well as of Freud a century later; and Silicon Valley today…
