The challenges smart and creative people encounter often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair. Specifically, the challenges that smart people face include: racing brain syndrome. living in an anti-intellectual culture. finding ideas worth loving. dealing with boredom and hypersensitivity. finding meaning in their lives and their work. struggling to achieve success.

Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling' If these traits sound familiar, then you may be an Everyday Genius--an ordinary person of unusual vision who breaks the mold and isn't afraid to push progress forward. . . . As thought-provoking...

"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...

Aliens abduct all adults; genius Jimmy and his friends build an interstellar spacefleet and rescue them, and get home in time for dinner.

Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between genius and idiot than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius...

We all know the autistic genius stereo types. The absentminded professor with untied shoelaces. The geeky Silicon Valley programmer who writes bulletproof code but can't get a date. But there is another set of (tiny) geniuses whom you would never add to those ranks-child prodigies. We mostly know them as the chatty and charming tykes who liven up daytime TV with violin solos and engaging banter. These kids aren't autistic, and there has never been...

June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic-- and each other-- and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government's elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes...

Nadia Pym recruits girl geniuses of the Marvel universe, battles evil scientists and man-eating rats, and eludes the Red Room.

The story of Charlie, a gentle mentally-handicapped man, and the repercussions he faces after undergoing brain surgery, and the unbreakable bond he has with a lab mouse, Algernon.