This makes sense for intellectual geniuses of literature, philosophy, and natural and social sciences.
How about geniuses of politics, religion, business? Men of action who shaped the physical world and peoples around them, birthing institutions and artifacts that outlive them? Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon; Krishna, Buddha, Jesus — men who became myths?
I wonder if there are any similarities in their childhoods at all. Perhaps their only similarity might be that they were incapable of being shaped by their past environment; that they overcame whatever came their way, including their childhoods, no matter how good or bad it was.
Childhoods of exceptional people
This makes sense for intellectual geniuses of literature, philosophy, and natural and social sciences.
How about geniuses of politics, religion, business? Men of action who shaped the physical world and peoples around them, birthing institutions and artifacts that outlive them? Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon; Krishna, Buddha, Jesus — men who became myths?
I wonder if there are any similarities in their childhoods at all. Perhaps their only similarity might be that they were incapable of being shaped by their past environment; that they overcame whatever came their way, including their childhoods, no matter how good or bad it was.
It is a matter of study.