About Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Little one Prodigies to Late Bloomers
• Writer: Nationwide Geographic (April 27, 2021)
• Hardcover: 368 pages
Yo-Yo Ma’s ear for music emerged not lengthy after he realized to stroll. By the age of seven, he was performing for President Kennedy; by fifteen he debuted at Carnegie Corridor. Maya Angelou, in contrast, didn’t write her iconic memoir, I Know Why the Cage Chicken Sings, till she was 40. What propels some people to succeed in extraordinary inventive heights within the earliest years of life whereas others uncover their passions many years later? Are prodigies imbued with innate expertise? How usually are midlife inspirations triggered by propitious occasions, like Julia Little one’s first French meal on the age of 36? Do late bloomers reveal their abilities as a result of their expertise require life expertise and contemplation?
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About Claudia Kalb
CLAUDIA KALB is an award-winning writer and journalist who studies on all kinds of well being and science subjects. She is the writer of the New York Occasions bestseller Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Contained in the Minds of Historical past’s Nice Personalities. A former senior author at Newsweek who has additionally contributed to Smithsonian and Scientific American, Kalb has written cowl tales for Nationwide Geographic that discover genius by way of the lens of biography, historical past, tradition, and science. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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