Intelligence lies in making hard problems easy, while stupidity is making easy problems hard. Genius is defined as making hard problems disappear. This approach must be applied to analyze negative aspects as much as positive achievements like the works of great artists such as Bach, Pankare, and Jimi Hendrix.
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the topic. First you’ll hear from David Krakauer, the president of The Santa Fe Institute, a research institution in New Mexico dedicated to the study of complexity science, and then you'll hear from professor Dean Keith Simonton, one of the world’s leading researchers into the psychological mechanisms and influences that generate the phenomenon we so often refer to as "genius."
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