Reddit reviews Divine Fury: A History of Genius

I'm currently reading a book Divine Fury: A History of Genius which may explain everything. The ancients believed that each man was born with a daemon (the Romans changed this to genius). Your personal daemon watches over you and guides your fate. Or you have a personal demon who leads you to your doom. See how deeply ingrained this concept has become?

Here is what I think is really going on. There is a constantly running background process deep within your mind like the computer science concept of daemon. This is the genius of your unconscious mind. It means you know more than you think you know, because ego consciousness is just a narrow and focused part of the mind which is unable to comprehend the sum total of your knowledge. So occasionally your unconscious mind will figure something out that needs to be brought to your attention and a voice in your head will make a little suggestion, this is the eureka moment. For me, an image tends to come to mind. I've never heard any kind of inner voice. But mental imagery makes you a visionary when it is the product of genius.

So to unlock the potential of your genius you need greater access to your unconscious mind. Most great artists and thinkers have greater access to their unconscious mind, either through mental illness (i.e. mad genius or the furor poeticus of Artistic inspiration or through divine inspiration.

I read a lot of non fiction, so I'll chip in with some of my favorites.
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History I like to describe as Bill Brysons book on steriods. It's a big read that covers everything from the formation of stars to the rise of civilisation, super interesting and has reading suggestions at the end of every chapter.
Diving Fury: A History of Genius will change the way you see christianity, among other things. One of my favorites so far.
A Criminal History of Mankind is an older book, but gives an excellent crash course in a fair bit of history from a psychology perspective. It's more interesting than you would expect.

A bit different from the others, Peter Mansfields A History of the Middle East is confusing as hell at times, but will give you a good base knowledge if you can follow it. First part is about earlier history and the Ottoman Empire, while the second part is primarily the 20th Century.

If I come across any others I'll add them.