• Complain

David Shenk - The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong

Here you can read online David Shenk - The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2011, publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, genre: Art. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2011
  • Rating:
    5 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 100
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

David Shenk: author's other books


Who wrote The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
The Genius in All of Us Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics Talent and IQ Is Wrong - photo 1

For my parents Compared with what we ought to be we are o - photo 2

For my parents Compared with what we ought to be we are only half awake Our - photo 3

For my parents Compared with what we ought to be we are only half awake Our - photo 4

For my parents

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources Stating the thing broadly, the human individual lives far within his limits.

William James

Contents

Part One:

CHAPTER ONE

Contrary to what weve been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual.

CHAPTER TWO

Intelligence is not an innate aptitude, hardwired at conception or in the womb, but a collection of developing skills driven by the interaction between genes and environment. No one is born with a predetermined amount of intelligence. Intelligence (and IQ scores) can be improved. Few adults come close to their true intellectual potential.

CHAPTER THREE

Like intelligence, talents are not innate gifts, but the result of a slow, invisible accretion of skills developed from the moment of conception. Everyone is born with differences, and some with unique advantages for certain tasks. But no one is genetically designed into greatness and few are biologically restricted from attaining it.

CHAPTER FOUR

Identical twins often do have striking similarities, but for reasons far beyond their genetic profiles. They can also have surprising (and often overlooked) differences. Twins are fascinating products of the interaction between genes and environment; this has been missed as heritability studies have been wildly misinterpreted. In reality, twin studies do not reveal any percentage of direct genetic influence and tell us absolutely nothing about individual potential.

CHAPTER FIVE

Child prodigies and superlative adult achievers are often not the same people. Understanding what makes remarkable abilities appear at different phases of a persons life provides an important insight into what talent really is.

CHAPTER SIX

Clusters of ethnic and geographical athletic success prompt suspicions of hidden genetic advantages. The real advantages are far more nuancedand less hidden.

Part Two:

CHAPTER SEVEN

The old nature/nurture paradigm suggests that control over our lives is divided between genes (nature) and our own decisions (nurture). In fact, we have far more control over our genesand far less control over our environmentthan we think.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Parenting does matter. There is much parents can do to encourage their kids to become achievers, and there are some important mistakes to avoid.

CHAPTER NINE

It must not be left to genes and parents to foster greatness; spurring individual achievement is also the duty of society. Every culture must strive to foster values that bring out the best in its people.

CHAPTER TEN

We have long understood that lifestyle cannot alter heredity. But it turns out that it can

Introduction to the electronic edition

Welcome to the ebook version of The Genius in All of Us, which offers a number of significant enhancements not available in the paper editions. Beyond the obvious advantages of portability and searchability, this ebook contains two nice features particularly suited to this book:

First, readers can link directly from endnote marks in the main text to the corresponding sources and notes in the Evidence sectionand then link directly to many of my original online sources. With about half of the books content residing in the notes section, this is a great opportunity to follow your curiosity as far as it will go.

Second, each chapter concludes with a direct link to an online discussion forum and to my ongoing blog on the subject. This book touches on a lot of powerful questions and concerns, and I hope readers will share their own thoughts and observations.

Of course, you can also simply ignore all these digital treats and read this ebook like an ordinary book-book. Perhaps after that you will sit down at an old oak table and hand-write me a letter on a nice thick piece of cotton-fiber vellum. Id love to read that letter too.

- D.S.

Introduction The Kid B aseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million - photo 5

Introduction
The Kid

B aseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most gifted hitter of his time. in The New Yorker in 1960. It went over the first basemans head and rose meticulously along a straight line and was still rising when it cleared the fence. The trajectory seemed qualitatively different from anything anyone else might hit.

In the public imagination, Williams was almost a god among men, a superhuman endowed with a collection of innate physical gifts, including spectacular eye-hand coordination, exquisite muscular grace, and uncanny instincts..

But all that innate miracle-man stuffit was all , said Williams. He insisted his great achievements were simply the sum of what he had put into the game. Nothing except practice, practice, practice will bring out that ability, he explained. The reason I saw things was that I was so intense It was [super] discipline, not super eyesight.

Is that possible? Could a perfectly ordinary man actually train himself to be a dazzling phenomenon? We all recognize the virtues of practice and hard work, but truly, could any amount of effort transform the clunky motions of a whiffer or a chucker into the majestic swing of Tiger Woods or the gravity-defying leap of Michael Jordan? Could an ordinary brain ever expand enough to conjure the far-flung curiosities and visions of Einstein or Matisse? Is true greatness obtainable from everyday means and everyday genes?

Conventional wisdom says no, that some people are simply born with certain gifts while others are not; that talent and high intelligence are somewhat scarce gems, scattered throughout the human gene pool; that the best we can do is to locate and polish these gemsand accept the limitations built into the rest of us.

But someone forgot to tell Ted Williams that talent will out. As a boy, he wasnt interested in watching his natural abilities unfurl passively like a flower in the sunshine. He simply wantedneededto be the best hitter baseball had ever seen, and he pursued that goal with appropriate ferocity.. He always had that bat in his hand And when he made up his mind to do something, he was going to do it or know the reason why.

wasnt going to let anything stop me from being the hitter I hoped to be, Williams later recalled. Looking back it was pretty near storybook devotion.

In other words, he worked for it, fiercely, single-mindedly, far beyond the norm. He had one thought in mind and he always followed it, said his high school coach Wos Caldwell.

Greatness was not a thing to Ted Williams; it was a

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong»

Look at similar books to The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong»

Discussion, reviews of the book The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything Youve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.