About This Novel
Best-selling author Eric Weiner is not a genius, and it is impossible to become someone with Einstein's IQ, but his daughter may still have a chance. Therefore, he traveled to 7 famous cultural cities around the world to study the time and place where creative geniuses emerged in history, and then thought about how to create a cultural atmosphere conducive to innovation at home. Combining travel notes, biographies, historical and sociological reflections, there are many discoveries along the way: why a chaotic environment is conducive to the emergence of genius (Beethoven was a complete slacker), why walking is conducive to thinking (even on a treadmill), why oysters were crucial to the Enlightenment, and why the Renaissance might not have happened without the outbreak of plague. Genius is not just a matter of genes or hard work. The key to nurturing genius lies in culture. This is not a personal behavior, but a public responsibility, as stated in "The Geography of Genius" "Villages raise children, cities cultivate geniuses."
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