{"id":4490,"date":"2008-10-14T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2008-10-14T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:33:01","slug":"the-two-kinds-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-two-kinds-of-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Kinds Of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Genius,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/10\/20\/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all\" title=\"Late Bloomers -- Malcolm Gladwell\">writes Malcolm Gladwell<\/a> in <i>The New Yorker<\/i>, &#8220;in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity&#8212;doing something truly creative, we&#8217;re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth.&#8221; But there is another kind of genius that has more to do with searching than finding, that is realised through  painstaking trial and error, that can take decades to reach fruition. Gladwell illustrates this by using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne\" title=\"Paul C&#233;zanne -- Wikipedia\">Paul C&#233;zanne<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/30481\/Ben_Fountain\/index.aspx\" title=\"Ben Fountain -- Harper Collins profile\">Ben Fountain<\/a> as examples, showing how luck and love are indispensable for this second kind of genius.<\/p>\n<p>So even if you weren&#8217;t quite the prodigy, keep at it. Ok?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/grch.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Rahul Bhatia\">Rahul<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Genius,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/10\/20\/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all\" title=\"Late Bloomers -- Malcolm Gladwell\">writes Malcolm Gladwell<\/a> in <i>The New Yorker<\/i>, &#8220;in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity&#8212;doing something truly creative, we&#8217;re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth.&#8221; But there is another kind of genius that has more to do with searching than finding, that is realised through  painstaking trial and error, that can take decades to reach fruition. Gladwell illustrates this by using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne\" title=\"Paul C&#233;zanne -- Wikipedia\">Paul C&#233;zanne<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/30481\/Ben_Fountain\/index.aspx\" title=\"Ben Fountain -- Harper Collins profile\">Ben Fountain<\/a> as examples, showing how luck and love are indispensable for this second kind of genius.<\/p>\n<p>So even if you weren&#8217;t quite the prodigy, keep at it. Ok?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/grch.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Rahul Bhatia\">Rahul<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Two Kinds Of Genius - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-two-kinds-of-genius\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Two Kinds Of Genius - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Genius,&#8221; writes Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, &#8220;in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity&#8212;doing something truly creative, we&#8217;re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth.&#8221; But there is another kind of genius that has more to do with searching than finding, that is realised through painstaking trial and error, that can take decades to reach fruition. 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