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The Geography of Genius

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Author
Eric Weiner
Published
2016
Pages
357
Recommended
2 times
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Why it’s on the list: Eric Weiner travels through history’s great creative hotspots — Athens, Hangzhou, Florence, Edinburgh, Calcutta, Vienna, Silicon Valley — to ask why genius clusters in particular places and eras rather than in particular people.

Where I heard about it

  • National Geographic — quoted in its Science of Genius issue, which I read in May 2020: “certain places at certain times produced a bumper crop of brilliant minds and good ideas.”
  • My own saved links — a Kindle link I saved and tagged under genius.

Connections

  • Genius — the book’s central question: what makes a place produce genius.
  • Pairs with Kyle’s City Building / creative-cluster interests.

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