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RECOMMENDED PRE-COURSE READING (Scroll Down to Find Required Readings for Each Session):
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Although the framework will be a traditional “great minds of Western culture” course based on Professor Wright’s half-century of exploration, from it will emerge practical recommendations for how you might make your own life, and those of children and grandchildren, richer, more creative, and more harmonious. Through in-depth readings including biography, analyses and contextual sources, you’ll expand your knowledge of the nature of genius, then come together with fellow alumni participants to discuss and wrestle with the truths behind the phenomena. Drawing upon this broad body of work, the charge will be to explore together how geniuses think, what their special character traits are, and how we too might begin to think as they do. His scholarship began with Mozart and Beethoven, and has extended in more recently decades to Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Edison and Tesla, Einstein, Woolf, Picasso, and Churchill. Yale Alumni Academy brings you this intimate group study experience where you’ll take a deep dive into the minds of the creative geniuses that Professor Wright has spent a lifetime studying. Your theme of inquiry is inspired by Professor Wright’s popular Yale College course on genius and his recently published book, The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit – Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus, Craig M. Spend twelve sessions over two weeks with Henry L. What is genius? Is it a myth or a reality, an absolute or a relative designation? In this immersive course, you’ll examine why and how the human psyche produces genius.