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I love Weirner's writing. He transports you to a place while unlocking the science and stories behind a phenomenon. He's incredibly funny and insightful. I read it during my commute to and from university and it was the perfect traveling companion
Having taken on the geography of happiness in The Geography of Bliss, author Eric Weiner now turns his attention to the geography of genius. Weiner takes a close look at places on the earth that have been hotspots of creativity in the past and then visits these places with an eye out for causation. A fascinating read.
Překvapuje mě, že si mnoho lidí stále myslí, jak je kreativita genetická záležitost. Tato kniha vás přesvědčí o tom, že je to spíše tím, v jaké společnosti se pohybujete (místa, kde se debatuje; investuje do umění; kombinují nápady a nebojí se selhání). Je to krásně ukázáno na příkladech míst, které toho jsou důkazem. Od Atén, přes Chang-čou, Florencii, Edinburgh, Kalkatu až po Silicon Valley.
Na knize je krásný dějepisný pohled, protože jsem neměl zdání o některých míst, které byly inspirujícím místem a proč tomu tak bylo. Člověk má touhu pak tyto místa navštívit a zkusit nasát jejich atmosféru, kde doslova vznikaly dějiny.
An interesting read taking a number of places throughout the history where the number of groundbreaking ideas born was very high. The author travels from one place to another trying to understand what made these places so outstanding. The selection he made is interesting, as most of them differ quite a lot from one another (like Athens from Edinburgh or Calcutta from Viena) and gives a wider view on what he tries to find out. It's not a ‘scientific' book, rather a light-hearted analysis of each of these places and the people who stayed behind their golden ages. The author thankfully avoided the temptation of creating an easy recipe to ‘cook a genius potion' and points into non-linear behaviour of such occurrences. I enjoyed the read and learned quite a lot about the history of philosophy and since, which is always a great thing :)