The Genius Famine
eBook - ePub

The Genius Famine

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Genius Famine

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. What is the Endogenous Personality?
  8. What is Personality, What is Intelligence?
  9. Different understandings of Genius
  10. The Creative Triad
  11. What Motivates the Genius Quest?
  12. Successful Creativity
  13. Identifying the Genius
  14. Destiny versus Conscientiousness
  15. The Shaman versus the Head Girl
  16. Newton versus Jung
  17. The Evolution of Genius
  18. The Rise and Fall of Genius
  19. The neglect and suppression of genius
  20. The War on Genius
  21. What to do?
  22. In Search of the Boy Genius
  23. Conclusion: Seven statements about genius
  24. About the Authors