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Tip 4 talks about how your birth order, I.e. first or last born might be more creative and have genius like abilities than others. But intelligence and personality are unaffected.

Tip 5 states how Polymaths are more likely to become geniuses or succeed in life in comparison to others. For eg, how Leeuwenhoek was a bookkeeper's apprentice n his microscope meant for textile inspection led to advances in micro biology.

The author talks about the various differences b/w creative and Non creative genius, artistic and scientific genius and how social sc genius are more prone to mental illness because of less logical research leading to lesser sense of achievement.

In tip 4, he talks about nature vs nurture, hereditary genius proposed by Galton but contrary evidence of genius from obscure backgrounds render it controversial. Nurture>>

1. Terman's IQ test and his research on the 'Termites' to assess top IQ scorers as geniuses while those who scored too low, to not be included in Termites, some of them actually became geniuses.

2. Cox's IQ test on geniuses stating if High IQ ppl could apply to creative aspirations rather than academic they might become geniuses.

3. Limitation- she only tested the genius IQ in creative domains on specific areas.

Lots of paradoxes