Rich or poor, lucky in life or oppressed by it, we each must eventually accept the lot we were given and play the hand we have been dealt or else be but a pawn in a game where others determine the outcome for us.
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Posted 04.24.2012
In the mid 1990's, Apple Computers was a dying company. Microsoft's Windows operating system was overwhelmingly favored by consumers, and Apple's at...
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.16.2012
According to the Daily Mail, 4-year-old Heidi Hankins "has an IQ of 159 -- only one point below Albert Einstein's -- and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa." Heidi's case raises an intriguing question: can high intelligence accurately be detected this young?
Annie Fabricant | Posted 05.27.2012
This Wednesday 28th at Paul Kasmin the 41 year old Israeli-born artist will present his new body of work, entitled Mother. A series of ten large paintings, they reference the famously heart-wrenching Holocaust photograph of Nazi soldiers clearing out the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.01.2012
If there's anything we've learned from over 25 years of twin and adoption studies virtually every single psychological trait -- from IQ to persistence to artistic ability to schizophrenia to autism to marital status to television viewing -- is heritable.
Bill Donius | Posted 05.15.2012
Is tapping into your right brain the equivalent of tapping into your "inner genius"?
Posted 04.04.2012
Do genes make the genius? Or is it really true that practice is what puts people in Carnegie Hall? Some argue that the the seeds of genius are plan...
David Z. Hambrick | Posted 05.01.2012
Experts are born because people come into the world differing in ways that turn out to matter for real-world achievement. But experts are made because there is no getting around the necessity of a long period of practice and training for reaching a high level of performance.
AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 04.16.2012
LOS ANGELES — The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enroll in college at ag...
Heather McCloskey Beck | Posted 03.26.2012
Laced throughout the history of cultures inhabiting our planet, humanity has repeatedly expressed an ardent and personal yearning for peace within our world. However, this soulful ideation offers cause for deeper reflection.
Lisa Randall | Posted 03.05.2012
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries -- the arts and humanities.
Christina Patterson | Posted 01.14.2012
You'd have thought that someone who seemed to spend most of his time looking for excuses not to paint, and who finished only about 15 paintings in his whole lifetime, might not be all that good at it. But you would, of course, be wrong.
Katherine von Jan | Posted 12.24.2011
Rather than scripting our K-12 experience, and expecting miracles when we get to college that we'll suddenly have clarity about our interests, we have to start asking students what turns them on earlier.
Posted 10.08.2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition came to an end last night, but it has already considered one of the Met's...
Linda Flanagan | Posted 08.28.2011
Aging punk rockers and the New York Times might not seem to have much in common, but staying afloat in a rapidly changing digital world is a theme sha...
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 06.07.2011
Michael Jackson was the epitome of creativity. But I wonder, how far did his genius spread? With his innovative powers, could he have created Twitter? This isn't an easy question to answer.
Trisha Gura | Posted 07.18.2011
But even intelligence, openness to experience and grit are not enough for genius to emerge. Those traits must be placed together in a singular environment.
Posted 06.14.2011
It happens in every generation: someone comes up with ideas that look crazy but turn out to be genius. When do they get the recognition? After they're...
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
Greatness is a difficult topic to scientifically study. Only very few people reach genius level, and no two paths are exactly the same.
Posted 05.27.2011
(Via Mutual Art) Before beginning to read this article, please look at the images above. Which was drawn by a child and which by a well-known Abstr...
Jane Chafin | Posted 05.25.2011
Author Shekerjian interviewed 40 "geniuses" for this book, all of whom had one thing in common: they each received a call one day informing them that they would receive a large amount of money, no strings attached.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Why don't we view passion and interest as gifts?
Todd Hartley | Posted 05.25.2011
Is there really a genius in all of us? Are you kidding me? Not even close. I dare say there's not a genius in more than about 0.0005 percent of the population, and even that may be a stretch.
Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011
At the center of Sudden Genius? by Andrew Robinson, are chapters devoted to 10 breakthroughs in the arts and sciences. Unlike Sudden Genius?, the figures discussed in the book refused to settle for the conventional.
Michael Meade, D.H.L. | Posted 05.14.2012