Discover Your Genius
How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
Introduction
On the Shoulders of Giants
You wereborn with the potential for genius. We all were; just ask any mother.
In 1451, in the Italian seaport of Genoa, a new mother saw it in the eyes of her firstborn child, unaware that the scintillating power of the 100 billion neurons in his brain would one day redefine the shape of the planet on which she lived. Decades later, the wife of a prosperous Polish merchant saw it in the eyes of her baby, though she would never have dared to predict that the connections his adult mind would eventually make would effectively reorder the universe. Three centuries and an ocean away, a woman of land and privilege didn't know that what she saw in the eyes of her child was the dawn of the capacity to grasp and synthesize the essence of Classical, Renaissance, and Enlightenment thinking -- and reinvent the notion of personal liberty for centuries to come.
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