# Quirky - By Melissa Schilling

1 Books December 5, 2017What makes some people so spectacularly innovative, producing triumph after triumph, often in fields in which they have no specialized training? Professor [Melissa Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling)’s penetrating and original analysis of the commonalities of creative genius, [*QUIRKY: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World*](https://www.amazon.com/Quirky-Remarkable-Foibles-Breakthrough-Innovators/dp/1610397924), delves deeply into the lives of eight creative geniuses to identify the traits and experiences that led them to become breakthrough innovators.

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