Name: Quirky
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Author: Melissa A. Schilling

Melissa

What makes a person a genius? Melissa Schilling, who has helped shape the worlds understanding of innovation, invites us into the lives of eight geniuses--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie and Thomas Edison.  She shows that what separates the great innovators from others isnt intellect alone but also their ability to apply their personalities in new ways. 

Keith Rabois is an American technology entrepreneur, executive and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square.

Keith

Quirky

How do you succeed in business? Start with the top Business and Management books by authors, bosses and industry leaders who have made it big.

business & management

Hear it from the horse's mouth in the top-rated Biographies and Memoirs by and about actors, athletes, politicians, musicians and other famous folk.

biographies & memoirs

Learn how the world works in the best Science and Nature books by respected experts, educators and authors in a variety of fields.

science & nature

Delve into the human mind with the best Psychology books on the market. Find out what makes us tick, and how to apply that knowledge in life.

psychology

Michael

Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

Adam

David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer, racing driver and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm Basecamp.

David Heinemeier Hansson

The Undoing Project

Steve Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, and a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Steve

Jack Kornfield is a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He has taught meditation worldwide since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist Mindfulness practice to the West.

Jack

Be Here Now

Aleksandr

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Joshua Foer is a science-focused freelance writer and author based in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the 2006 United States Memory Champion, as detailed in his 2011 book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. In February 2012, he gave a talk at the TED conference.‍

Joshua

The Mind of a Mnemonist

Carl

Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

Arianna

Gretchen Rubin is an American author, blogger and speaker. She is the author of several New York Times bestsellers.

Gretchen

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Jill

Brendon Burchard is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and "the world's leading high performance coach". His latest book, High Performance Habits, was a Wall Street Journal best-seller and named by Amazon as one of its top three best business and leadership books of 2017.

Brendon

Raymond Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. Bloomberg ranked him as the world's 79th-wealthiest person in February 2020.

My Stroke of Insight

Marlene

Hamilton Morris is an American journalist and pharmacological researcher. He is known for his television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigates the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs.

Hamilton

The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios

Temple

Judd Mann Apatow is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he produced and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This Is 40, Trainwreck, and The King of Staten Island.

Judd

Thinking In Pictures

Otto

Stanislav Grof is a Czech psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.

Stanislav

The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis

Rami Said Malek is an American actor and producer. His breakthrough role was as computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot, for which he received several accolades, including the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Rami

An Unquiet Mind

Leonard

Brian Edward Cox OBE, FRS is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Brian

Leonardo’s Brain

Cleo Abram is a video journalist currently making Huge If True. She was previously a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

Cleo

Patrick Collison is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. Collison lives in San Francisco, California.

Patrick

The Dream Machine

Leslie

Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of US$88.9 billion as of December 2019, making him the fourth-wealthiest person in the world.