The Genius In All Of Us - Debunks the Long-Standing Notion of Genetic “Giftedness.”

Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence. In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance.

Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines—cognitive science, genetics, biology, child development—Shenk and THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US portrays a highly-optimistic new view of human potential. Genes are not a “blueprint” that doom some and bless others. Instead, genes are dynamic actors in a complex developmental process—dynamics that we can influence.

DAVID SHENK is a national-bestselling author of The Forgetting, Data Smog and The Immortal Game. His blog “The Genius in All of Us” is currently featured on The Atlantic.com