Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovir.

In this episode, I'm super excited to introduce you guys to my friend, Dr. Melissa Schilling.

She's an NYU professor of innovation, and she wrote the incredible book, Quarky,

which is all about the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators that have changed the world.

In this episode, we're going to talk about the commonalities that unite.

World-shifting innovators like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein.

We're going to talk about the specific traits that all of these innovators have in common,

and how you can embody them in your own life so that you can be more effective,

regardless of what your goals happen to be.

Dr. Schilling has done a deep dive, and I'm super excited for you to get to know her.

And towards the end of the podcast, we actually get a little bit into nutrition and health,

because Dr. Schilling, because of her expertise in data analysis, and also credited to personal

circumstance, has done a deep dive into the literature pertaining to Alzheimer's disease.

And she published an incredible paper in the Journal of Alzheimer's disease,

which is one of the top dementia journals that looked at the role of chronically elevated insulin,

and the ideology of Alzheimer's disease.

This is kind of unusual because, as I mentioned, Dr. Schilling is an innovation professor,

but nonetheless, her unique skill set really gave her the tools to analyze this literature,

and she came to some staggering conclusions about the role of diet and the foods that we're eating

in Alzheimer's disease, which, as some of you might know, is a condition that begins in the

brain decades before the first symptom. So, needless to say, I'm really excited for this episode

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