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‘Genius.’

To be a genius is no ordinary feat. But it wasn’t always that way.

Up until the Renaissance period, a genius didn’t embody a person; it came to them. As Elizabeth Gilbert explains in her TED talk, Socrates, for example, claimed moments of…