Annie Murphy Paul is a journalist, author, consultant, and speaker. A frequent contributor to  The New York Times, Time magazine, and  Slate, Paul is the author of two previous books,  The Cult of Personality and Origins, a New York Times Notable Book. Her next book, titled  Brilliant: The Science of How We Get Smarter, will be published by Crown in 2017. She is the founder of BrilliantEd LLC, a training and consulting company, and speaks frequently at schools and companies around the country, and her TED Talk has been viewed more than 1.3 million times. She also is lecturer at Yale University, where she teaches the craft of writing and the science of intelligence.