> 2. Genius is overrated. What? > But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time. Not just

> 2. Genius is overrated. What? > But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time. Not just "people" - "geniuses". History shows multiple geniuses were working on it at the same time. I do agree that we give too much credit to a single genius. Had Isaac Newton not lived, we'd still have calculus, physics, etc in some form or another. The same thing with Einstein, Turing, etc. But that doesn't mean genius is overrated. What's overrated is the hero worshiping narrative we build around a single genius due to racial or nationalistic reasons. But I think we should have as many geniuses working on problems as possible rather than saying that genius is overrated.