Is one's zone of genius inherited?

[Basman]

Being an artist runs in my family. Parents, grandparents, siblings, a significant chunk of the family are/have been artists. I have a great-grandfather who's paintings hang in the town hall of my town.

I can see it being a matter of proximity, in the sense that you are exposed to the same values your entire life. Your exposed to art and the meaning it has to people. But I wonder if it is genetic to a certain extent? My brother looks a lot more like my dad, including his technical interest, making him both a kind of exception in the family and a mirror of our dad.

Thoughts? Do you think your zone of genius is inherited by your family situation/genetic?

 

[UpperMaster]

Impossible to test almost.

 

Super expected unsexy answer but a combination of both. 

 

I think environment plays a huge role. Even babies pick up small cues.

look at the “bad baby” in experiment, where AMERICAN  black and white babies were placed in front of a black and white doll. They both had to chose which ones good or bad. Most babies chose black doll as bad. 
 

why? Because of cues in the environment. That’s insane that a baby picks up on it.

 

in Africa black babies and children that see white people think of them as ghosts. 

how does this connect to your message?

Point is, cues in the environment inform us on what is valuable and not. So as a baby you and many of your family members picked up on the fact that being artistic is value since being born. Even before necessarily picking up a paintbrush. 
 

This is speculation.

Edited 14 hours ago by UpperMaster

[Sucuk Ekmek]

I don't think so, you live and learn.

Otherwise we could just breed the Aryan race and they could bring us all the art we need.