Yale University - The Nature of Genius
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The Nature of Genius at Coursera Overview
Duration | 28 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
The Nature of Genius at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion
The Nature of Genius at Coursera Course details
- In this course, Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus and author of The Hidden Habits of Genius, Craig Wright, will begin by giving you his definition and prerequisites for true genius and challenge you to come up with your own
- From there we'll look at examples of geniuses both historical and modern to try to identify the threads that bind them together and understand what separates the true genius from the wannabe
- We?ll explore where creativity, curiosity and passion originate and how geniuses are able to discover, cultivate and apply their prodigious stores of each so as to fashion world changing ideas and inventions
The Nature of Genius at Coursera Curriculum
Genius Defined, Genius Denied , Genius and Geography
Welcome to the course!
Are You a Genius?
Genius and Celebrity
The Changing Face of Genius
A Definition of Genius for Today
Evidence for Bias Against Female Accomplishment
Opportunity and Encouragement
The Game is Rigged
Guest Interview: Meg Urry
Is Genius a Person, a Team or a Society?
Are There “Ages” of Genius?
Genius, Geography and Originality
Is There a Genius of a Race
Prologue
Suggested Reading
Further Reading for 111-114
Further Reading for 121-124
Further Reading for 131-134
Are You a Genius? What is Genius?
Genius and Gender
Genius, Geography, and Race
First Things First
Nature vs. Nurture: Genes and Epigenes
IQ testing: What does it mean to be smart?
Intelligence Has Many Forms
Guest Interview: Margit Dahl
“Genius is the Recovery of Childhood at Will”
Prodigies, Geniuses, and Late Bloomers
The Problem with Prodigies
Guest Interview - Eileen Jennings
Genius: Luck or Self-Made
Make that Lucky Move
Genius and Money
Guest Interview - Roger McNamee
Further Reading for 211-214
Further Reading for 231-234
Nature vs. Nurture: Gift or Hard Work: IQ or Many Q’s
Childlike Imaginations, Genius, Prodigies and the Gifted
Genius, Luck and Money
What Makes Genius?
Curiosity
The Most Curious Person in History: Leonardo da Vinci
Voracious Reading
A Tolerance for Risk
Fox or Hedgehog?
Polymaths
Combinative Thinking
Oppositional Thinking
Passion
The Passion/Obsession of Marie Curie
The Productive Perspiration of Thomas Edison
Passion and Longevity
Further Reading for 311-314
Further Reading for 321-324
Further Reading for 331-334
Curiosity and a Tolerance for Risk
Foxes, Polymaths and Creative Ways of Thinking
Passion, Persistence and Longevity
Disruption, Genius and Morality, Genius and “Disability”
Rebels, Dropouts, and Nonconformists
Creative and Non-Creative Destruction
Genius and Morality
Genius in the Age of Cancel Culture
How We Can Improve Individually?
How to Fix Things Collectively?
Further Reading for 411-414
Further Reading for 421-422
Rebels, Creative Destruction, Morality & Genius
What Have We Learned?
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The Nature of Genius