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In The Geography of Genius, reporter Eric Weiner explores the conditions they share.
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Former NPR journalist Eric Weiner says he elected to apply a geographic approach to his survey of creative clusters, because he hoped it would offer insights that more conventional analyses have missed.
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In each of the times and places he visits in The Geography of Genius, Weiner says he was able to identify some commonalities that contributed to or supported their creative outbursts. He calls them his 3 Ds.
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