The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius

by Dean Keith Simonton

Book Overview

What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.

What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered a marker of mental health. Be a child prodigy like Mozart, or a later bloomer like Beethoven? Die tragically young, like Keats, or live to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262038110
• ISBN13: 9780262038119
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher