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

Informationen zum Autor Dean Keith Simonton, an expert on creativity and genius, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Origins of Genius, Creativity in Science, Genius 101, and other books. Klappentext In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses that range from Isaac Newton to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. He explains the origin of IQ tests and the art of estimating the IQ of long-dead historical figures (John Stuart Mill: 200; Charles Darwin: 160). He compares IQ scores with achieved eminence as measures of genius, and he draws a distinction between artistic and scientific genius. Genius, Simonton explains, operates in ways so subtle that they seem contradictory. Genius is born and made, the domain of child prodigies and their elders. Simonton's checklist gives us a new, integrative way to understand geniuses¿and perhaps even to nurture your own genius!

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Dean Keith Simonton, an expert on creativity and genius, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Origins of Genius, Creativity in Science, Genius 101, and other books.

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• Authors: Dean Keith Simonton, Dean Keith (Distinguished Professor Emer Simonton, Dean Keith (Distinguished Professor Emeritus Simonton
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2018
• EAN: 9780262038119
• ISBN: 978-0-262-03811-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The Genius Checklist; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works