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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

Today, I want you to think of a genius.

Get a person in your mind, historical or contemporary,

someone who really deserves the title.

Got someone?

Okay, so what makes this person a genius?

Are they smart, talented? Were they born that way?

Did they work hard? I want you to hold on to this thought, this person, throughout the

episode. We're going to come back to it. I'm talking today with Dr.

Craig Bright. He teaches a very popular course on Genius at Yale. Craig

spent decades studying the phenomenon and he's just published a new book, The Hidden Habits of Genius.

Craig challenges what we've come to believe about truly exceptional people.

He can tell us a lot about what genius really is and how we can cultivate it in ourselves and in others.

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