The Genius Famine
Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out, Why We Must Rescue Them
Published on 22. January 2016
232 pages
978-1-78955-148-8 (ISBN)
Description
Geniuses are rare and exceptional people. The majority of the great ideas, discoveries and inventions of human history, which have allowed the development of civilization itself, were the products of geniuses.
A genius combines extremely high intelligence with a unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit-into normal society, they will seldom want to. And we shouldn't want them to, because it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, and solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems.
But modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever-fewer geniuses and, to make matters worse, modern society has become actively hostile to those few geniuses we still have.
The Genius Famine explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how the famine will lead to the decline of civilization, and what we can and should do to overcome it.
A genius combines extremely high intelligence with a unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit-into normal society, they will seldom want to. And we shouldn't want them to, because it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, and solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems.
But modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever-fewer geniuses and, to make matters worse, modern society has become actively hostile to those few geniuses we still have.
The Genius Famine explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how the famine will lead to the decline of civilization, and what we can and should do to overcome it.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Legend Press Ltd
File size
0,29 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78955-148-8 (9781789551488)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What is the Endogenous Personality?
- What is Personality, What is Intelligence?
- Different understandings of Genius
- The Creative Triad
- What Motivates the Genius Quest?
- Successful Creativity
- Identifying the Genius
- Destiny versus Conscientiousness
- The Shaman versus the Head Girl
- Newton versus Jung
- The Evolution of Genius
- The Rise and Fall of Genius
- The neglect and suppression of genius
- The War on Genius
- What to do?
- In Search of the Boy Genius
- Conclusion: Seven statements about genius
- About the Authors
