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Podcast Goodness: Good Ideas and Life Straw
by Charles W. Bryant | November 19, 2010
Hey there, Stuff You Should Know Army! It’s Chuck here for a little podcast recap for the week of November 15, in the year 2010. That’s right, it’s 2010, so if you’re still living on 2009 time, then you’re almost a full year behind. Get with it, why don’t you. I kid.
So this week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast program we covered good ideas in a couple of ways.
You Asked:
Is there any way that I can become a genius? — Priya, Sydney, Australia
Marshall Brain Answers…
Oy vey. I got up early this morning and wrote what I thought was a pretty stellar podcast recap for you fine folks. We have a booger of a show to record later today so I made sure I got up EXTRA early to get the recap done so I could spend my day prepping. Thank you, Wordpress for deleting the entire post before I could get it published. Ugh. In protest, I’m not going to try to recreate the genius that was that post. Let’s just get down and dirty and leave it to the excellent comments to save my bacon.
When you hear the word ‘genius,’ names like Einstein and Mozart probably spring to mind. Defining what makes them geniuses, however, is much more complicated. Josh and Chuck discuss the many theories about genius in this episode.
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