John Taylor GattoGenius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. Genius is the ability to think in a very wide range of fields. We all have genius in some way or another, whether it’s for sports, art, music, math, or something else. It’s not something that’s simply given to us, but something that we have to work hard for.
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