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Helen Lewis is a British journalist and cultural critic who writes on gender and society. The Genius Myth challenges popular assumptions about talent and merit in modern culture.

if you have ninety-nine insane ideas and the other one is gravity, congratulations. History will remember gravity. But that does suggest that there are many people out there who simply had the misfortune to have a hundred insane ideas and no good ones. Again, that distorts our idea of achievement.

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The Genius Myth
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