Intelligenze creative. Fisiologia della creatività attraverso le vite di Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinskij, Eliot, Gandhi e Martha Graham

I bought a copy of this book half a decade ago. It followed me from shelf to shelf, but I was never really able to meaningfully commit to it despite myself keenly knowing nothing in psychology interests me more than creativity for a very long time. Either other books caught my interest more, or I wa Leggi tutto

Howard Gardner provides intimate sketches of these creative individuals who stood out on various domains, while studying their lives in alignment with his theory of Multiple Intelligences. Filled with lots of useful info and insights.

Not a bad book overall. It basically deep dives into a few key genius personalities that we've been lucky enough to hear about or see or be able to research on in the Internet. I was expecting more insight into their personal lives and a bit more of an insight into what made them the genius that the Leggi tutto

I first heard about Gardner's book while reading another book. Gardner was often quoted in the book Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives (0046442072434)by Louise Desalvo. Because of her references I found myself excited about ordering Creating Minds as the next r Leggi tutto

The majority of this book is biographical, with underlying themes of how creativity developed within the individuals studied. In that way, Gardner gives enough of the right info for you to draw your own conclusions on creativity. This is also the flaw, I think more pages could have been devoted to c Leggi tutto

As a young teacher, Gardner’s Frames of Mind broadened my sense of how to use multiple modalities in the classroom. And, because I’m an historian with a particular interest in early 20th century Western Civilization, I added Creating Minds to the piles of books I wanted to read. That was twenty-five Leggi tutto

I didn't really find the conclusion convincing, and thought the inclusion of Martha Graham and Ghandi was less than helpful. Ghandi doesn't seem to fit into the narrative as well as the first 3 cases, and Graham's section was awkward since her work could not really be well described in print. Her ch Leggi tutto

Of all the books that I have read on creativity, this is one of the finest. Gardner writes like an intellectual without completely losing his less-educated audience. I like his theory of "asynchrony" and the notion of "where is creativity" rather than "what is creativity", and where in the space bou Leggi tutto