Experts
David Shenk
Author
Interview with David Shenk
June 9, 2010
Other Ideas from Shenk
| How Not to Squash a Prodigy | 5:25 | Discuss |
| Where Does Genius Come From? | 4:23 | Discuss |
About David Shenk
David Shenk is the national bestselling author of five previous books, including "The Forgetting," "Data Smog," and "The Immortal Game." He is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. His new book, "The Genius in All of Us," will be published by Doubleday in March 2010.
"The Genius in All of Us"
DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance.”