GENIUS MYTH: The Dangerous Allure of Rule-Breakers
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Let's do it. I'm Rufus Griscomb and I'm Caleb Bissinger. And this is the next big idea. Today, the dangerous allure of genius. All right, Caleb, why don't you set up today's show?
Who did you talk to? What's the big idea? Yeah, so I sat down with Helen Lewis. She's a staff writer at The Atlantic, and she's just published this new book called The Genius Myth. And her big idea is that our obsession with genius, which stretches back centuries, that obsession, she says, is poisonous.
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