A Journey Into the Genius Mind

Endless inspiration - This book is fortunately not one of those “how to become a genius in 30 days” guides. It has a specially subtle effect on the reader, allowing you to immerse yourself in the mindsets of the geniuses the book speaks about, to feel the essence of each individual personality and all of them together as a group too. These ten geniuses may have seemed lonely and strange on the outside, they didn’t have it easy during their own lifetimes. Where did they find their energy, their strength? From their endless inspiration! They were in love with life’s incredible creativity. An unstoppable fire burned within them for what they were doing, and it was greater than their own individual personalities. It calls you to actively rethink the way you think. You can learn so much: from these ten special people, and from yourself, as long as you are open to it. Theresa Bäuerlein und Shai Tubali have brilliantly brought the geniuses to life for us, making them human, relatable. I have great respect for the comprehensive research needed to write a book like this one. It demands plenty of patience and creative fire. The result is no less than a gift for us all.    If sometime in the future someone says to me: “look, what a romantic sunset!”, then I will give this book to them with a bookmark discreetly placed on the chapter about Giordano Bruno. 

Ten widespread thought patterns - This book is well-suited to broadening your horizons, as it also successfully presents the thought patterns of researchers, whose areas of expertise you have probably never come into contact with before.

Great book – enjoyable audio book version Fantastic book with good audio. I’ll definitely listen again. Everyone should listen to it once. Very interesting. I was fascinated. Definitely recommended reading.

Difficult topic, convincingly handled - I almost didn’t read this book because of the subtitle, which I’m sure was the publisher’s choice and only there to push more sales. However, in the contents two names stood out alongside that of Einstein, both of which I have been familiar with since childhood: Socrates and Leonardo. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of technical jargon and the readability, and so I found myself reading the seven remaining concise chapters one after the other. Even as a historian I was able to learn a great deal. Highly worth reading – and a rarity – were the introduction and epilogue, where, among other things, the selection criteria were clearly outlined. If I could make a suggestion for future editions: less hyperbole in the subtitle, please! Overall the two authors – whose individual contributions are sadly not credited by name – offer a book that, despite the deluge of new publications in this genre, is worth reading more than once

Nice compact book - First of all: this book won’t turn the reader into an einstein 🙂 The book examines figures from the history of mankind who were considered the “lateral thinkers” of their generations. Their approaches, philosophies, and thought methods are explored and contrasted with their contemporaries. The book explains why these maverick minds were ahead of their time, and why we should/can follow the example set by their ways of thinking (with the hope of being equally successful in whatever we do).