The psychologist Dean Simonton argues that this fecundity is often at the heart of what distinguishes the truly gifted.

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John Simonton, who created the Paia electronic kit company in 1967, died last Friday after a battle with cancer.

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Dr Simonton considers genius to have more of a genetic component.

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The American Psychological Association will publish this book later this year, so that its members may learn from Dr Simonton's observations on the great prodigies of psychology.

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"The most successful people tend to be those with the most failures, " says Dr. Simonton, author of more than 500 studies and articles and 12 books on creativity and innovation.

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"We think that the revenues from newspaper companies have been insufficient to cover their cost, " explained Mike Simonton, an analyst at Fitch Ratings, who issued a negative outlook on the industry.

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Charles Simonton, chief medical officer of Abbott's vascular division, said that carotid stenting has a similar net outcome in patients to carotid surgery, and therefore should be covered more widely by Medicare.

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Many people succeed at producing innovations because they churn out a very large number of ideas, both good and bad, says Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis.

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