What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.
What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant
physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering
from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered a marker
of mental health. Be a child prodigy like Mozart, or a later bloomer like
Beethoven? Die tragically young, like Keats, or live to a ripe old age like
Goethe? In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in
creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory.
Simonton,