Re: PSYCH: Genius: Innate or Acquired?

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 23:44:01 MST


24 Qualities That Geniuses Have in Common
http://hightechbiz.com/pub/genius.htm

Genius' derivation sorts out to about 70% genetic, and 30% environment.

Stay hungry,

--J. R.

Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
free will
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----- Original Message -----
From: "zeb haradon" <zebharadon@hotmail.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: PSYCH: Genius: Innate or Acquired?

> I read an article about the things that established geniuses all have in
> common. The authors studied Mozart, Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso,
Darwin,
> and (for some reason) Freud. At least those are the ones I remember.
They
> picked them as "established in their field" as geniuses. What they found
was
> that they
> - were born to young parents
> - were members of some ethnic/religious minority where they grew up
> - had difficulty relating to people
> - were first or only children
>
> This is all from memory.. there were more things too.
>
>
>
>
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