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

DNA will not help to make us who we are. “Neglect everything you believe you know about genes, talent, and cleverness,” he creates. “In recent years, a mountain of scientific proof has emerged suggesting a completely brand-new paradigm: not skill scarcity, but latent talent abundance.”

about The Genius in every of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines-cognitive science, genetics, biology, child development-Shenk provides a highly optimistic new view of individual potential. The problem isn’t our inadequate genetic assets, but our lack of ability, so far, to tap into what we already have. IQ tests and widespread acceptance of “innate” abilities have produced an unnecessarily pessimistic look at of humanity-and fostered much misdirected public plan, specifically in education.

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

This is a revolutionary and optimistic message. We aren’t prisoners of our DNA. We all have the potential for greatness.

Includes a bonus PDF of the trunk pages, containing section notes, expansions on the materials, and a bibliography