A list of our sites
NYPR Network

The Takeaway
Support Us

The Takeaway
Support Us
Projects

The Genius Within

We're running a week-long series about genius and how any of us can get that way, inspired by a new book, "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong." The book's author, David Shenk, will take questions all week in our blog.

Read the first chapter of "The Genius in All of Us."

Listen to the full series:

(Excerpt from THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US by David Shenk Copyright © 2010 by David Shenk. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.)

  • David Shenk Answers Listeners' Questions on Genius

    Mar 15, 2010
    Throughout our week-long series on genius, we collected listeners' questions for author David Shenk on genius, education, chess, and whether genius could have foreseen the financial c...

  • The Problem With Child Prodigies

    Mar 10, 2010
    In this third installment of our series on genius, we look at the problem of child prodigies. Author David Shenk and chess champion Josh Waitzkin, who was the inspiration for the ma...

  • What Does it Take to Be a Genius?

    Mar 9, 2010
    Practice, practice, practice. In this second installment of our weeklong series on genius, we talk to violinist Sarah Chang who was recognized as a child prodigy, recording her first ...

  • The Genius in All of Us

    Mar 8, 2010
    When you hear the word "genius," you might think of Einstein, Mozart, or Da Vinci. But how they became geniuses is the subject of debate. Where they born that way? Or does it come fro...