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YOU Are a Genius!

As genetic research advances, the risk of attributing too many qualities, such as genius, to our genes dangerously downplays individual potential for achievement.
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As genetic research advances, the risk of attributing too many qualities, such as genius, to our genes dangerously downplays individual potential for achievement. “Our problem is not that we possess inadequate genetic assets but that we are suffering from an inability, so far, to tap into what we already have. Few of us know our true limits and the vast majority of us have not even come close to tapping what scientists call our ‘unactualised potential’.”

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