#181: The Geography of Genius

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Throughout human history there have been pockets of genius around the world. You had Athens with Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. During the Enlightenment, Edinburgh, Scotland produced a lot of great thinkers who influenced the modern world. And today, Silicon Valley seems to have a concentration of extremely smart and talented people. Why do these pockets of genius seem of occur? What was it about these places? My guest today wanted to find out. Eric Weiner is the author of The Geography of Genius, and on today's show we talk about his book.

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0:00.0	We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Mailingness Podcast.
0:17.6	I want to start off the podcast by saying I'm sorry to you all, sorry for the bad sound
0:22.0	quality on these last few episodes.
0:24.2	I found out what the problem was, I've corrected it, it shouldn't be a problem, but it shouldn't
0:28.2	have happened in the first place, so sorry for that.
0:30.8	It also gives you a heads up, I've been working on some technology that will hopefully improve
0:35.6	the sound quality of my guest.
0:37.3	So being someone who doesn't have a professional studio, doesn't have the budget to fly people
0:40.8	out, I have to rely on Skype, but Skype, as you all know, can be, people can sound like they're
0:45.3	talking in a tin can, but I think I've found something that will solve that and make that
0:51.3	part of the audio sound a lot better.
0:53.8	So look for that in the next few months, hopefully we have that ready for you.
0:58.8	As always, we're trying to improve the show, we take your feedback seriously and we're
1:02.3	doing all we can to give you a good quality product.
1:04.6	All right, so without further ado, let's talk about today's podcast.
1:08.2	Throughout human history, there have been these pockets of genius that are just flourished
1:12.6	in the world.
1:13.6	There was ancient Athens where you had Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, all in a very short time period,
1:20.4	come out, and along with other Greek thinkers.
1:23.2	Edinburgh, Scotland during the Enlightenment produced a lot of great thinkers that influenced
1:27.7	the modern world.
1:29.5	You have Silicon Valley today, you have Vienna during the 1900s, you have Renaissance
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