Read: David Shenk - The Genius in All of Us

We watched the author in an interview on TVO, and Mark was interested to learn more about what he had to say about the field of epigenetics, so I ordered his book. In the end it's not so much about epigenetics as just generally that genetics plays a far fuzzier role in our traits than we think. The author is keen to spread the message that we all have more potential to succeed than we credit ourselves with, and that most 'geniuses' are actually very hard-working obsessively devoted people - it doesn't come easy for them. It's generally a pretty interesting book, but just as I thought we were getting in deep, it was over - the last half of the book is chapter notes. I think a good editor could whittle this down to a long-ish magazine article that would have the same impact.