# The Genius Checklist

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- Book: [The Genius Checklist](https://www.bookquiver.com/simonton/the-genius-checklist) ([The Genius Checklist.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simonton/the-genius-checklist.md))
- Authors: [Dean Keith Simonton](https://www.bookquiver.com/simonton)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-795-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2019-11-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients. What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership...