270 - Defining Genius

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this show you'll hear the first episode of a documentary series I made about the difficulty of defining the word "genius," and out of that launching point it goes deep into the science of human potential and the history of the both the word and all the ideas we have attempted to understand and express when using it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:28.0	Episode 270
0:46.0	So I'm going to play something for you that I'm very proud of, something I've put together
0:49.2	right after I finished How Minds Change.
0:51.6	The book that came out a year ago that is currently printed on paper and available
0:55.8	on shelves and also as an audiobook that I read out loud and it was also fortunately
1:00.2	recorded by a sound engineer when I did that.
1:02.6	I'm recording this in October of 2023 as I'm on the road giving lectures on this book
1:09.6	tour about How Minds Change.
1:11.6	I'm headed to Montreal right after this.
1:14.4	I just got back from Denver and then I'm going to New York and Toronto and Madison was
1:18.2	constant and NASA's Goddard Space Center where I will dramatically be pressing buttons
1:22.8	and pretending I am making contact with Intelligent Life, circling a moon of Jupiter and then
1:27.4	on from there to places like Tel Aviv.
1:30.0	If you'd like me to come speak to your institution, just email me.
1:32.6	But this episode is going to be about something that I did right after writing that book.
1:37.4	I wanted to explore what is genius really mean and how come it's so hard to get an answer
1:44.0	to that question and I was very lucky because this audio documentary and podcast series
1:49.3	in deep dive audio learning service called Himalaya reached out to me and asked about two
1:54.5	years ago if I had any book ideas that I'd get to pursue and I said oh yeah I have this
1:59.0	fascination with the word genius and the very idea of defining that word or any word
2:05.1	and articulating the ineffable and meaning itself and applying all that stuff to communication
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