9. Follow your high school passion. Many recipients work outside of conventional disciplinary categories say the MacArthurs. Over the years awards have been given for paper-making, gospel-music, sculpting, stage-lighting, poetry – all the things students love but tend to drop as their course loads become heavier. Stick at it people.
— The Guardian offers 9 guidelines for how to win one of the MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius grants’
