The Bright Stuff - The Quirks that Underpin Genius

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Billionaire tech geniuses Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have shown their more unusual outlook on life in the past few weeks. Facebook boss Zuckerberg confessed to viewing the ancient Roman emperor Augustus Caesar as guiding influence, while Musk has made a series of unusual public pronouncements and smoked marijuana on live radio. Melissa Schilling, author of Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World, explains how they are not that much different from those trailblazers that went before them.