The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ Audiobook (Free)

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of each individual.

DNA will not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you understand about genes, skill, and intelligence,” he writes. “Lately, a hill of scientific proof has emerged recommending a completely fresh paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent skill abundance.”

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Integrating cutting-edge research from a broad swath of disciplines-cognitive science, genetics, biology, child development-Shenk provides a highly optimistic new view of human being potential. The problem isn’t our insufficient genetic possessions, but our incapability, so far, to tap into what we curently have. IQ tests and widespread acceptance of “innate” capabilities have developed an unnecessarily pessimistic watch of humanity-and fostered much misdirected public policy, especially in education.

The truth is a lot more exciting. Genes aren’t a “blueprint” that bless some with greatness and doom the majority of us to mediocrity or worse. Rather our individual destinies are a item from the complicated interplay between genes and outside stimuli-a dynamic that people, as people and as parents, can influence.

This is a revolutionary and optimistic message. We are not prisoners of our DNA. We all have the prospect of greatness.

Includes a reward PDF of the trunk pages, containing chapter notes, expansions within the material, and a bibliography