Genius in All of Us Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong

Name: Genius in All of Us Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
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ISBN: 9780385523653

ISBN-10: 0385523653

ISBN-13: 9780385523653

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Shenk

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With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic "giftedness," and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. "Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence," he writes. "In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance." Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplinescognitive science, genetics, biology, child developmentShenk offers a highly optimistic new view of human potential. The problem isn't our…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/9/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

David Shenk a former fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, he has written for Harper's Wired, Salon, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, and is an occasional commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". He lives in Brooklyn, New York.



The Argument


Introduction: The Kid



The Myth of Gifts



Genes 2.0-How Genes Really Work



Intelligence Is a Process, Not a Thing



The End of "Giftedness" (and the True Source of Talent)



The Similarities and Dissimilarities of Twins



Prodigies and Late Bloomers



Can White Men Jump? Ethnicity, Genes, Culture, and Success



Cultivating Greatness



How to Be a Genius (or Merely Great)



How to Ruin (or Inspire) a Kid



How to Foster a Culture of Excellence



Genes 2.1-How to Improve Your Genes


Epilogue: Ted Williams Field


The Evidence


Sources and Notes, Clarifications and Amplifications


Bibliography


Acknowledgments