Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the by Howard E. Gardner

By Howard E. Gardner

Howard Gardner replaced the best way we predict approximately intelligence. In his vintage paintings Frames of Mind, he undermined the typical thought that intelligence is a unmarried means that each man or woman possesses to a better or lesser quantity. Now development at the framework he built for realizing intelligence, Gardner offers us a direction breaking view of creativity, besides riveting graphics of 7 figures who each one reinvented a space of human activity. utilizing as some extent of departure his thought of 7 “intelligences,” starting from musical intelligence to the intelligence taken with knowing oneself, Gardner examines seven notable individuals—Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Mahatma Gandhi—each a great exemplar of 1 type of intelligence. figuring out the character in their disparate artistic breakthroughs not just sheds mild on their achievements but in addition is helping to explain the “modern era”—the occasions that shaped those creators and which they in flip helped to outline. whereas targeting the instant of every creator’s most important step forward, Gardner discovers styles an important to our knowing of the inventive technique. now not unusually, Gardner believes unmarried number of creativity is a delusion. yet he provides proof that yes character configurations and desires symbolize artistic participants in our time, and that quite a few commonalities colour the ways that principles are conceived, articulated, and disseminated to the general public. He notes, for instance, that it nearly constantly takes ten years to make the preliminary artistic step forward and one other ten years for next breakthroughs. inventive humans function strange combos of intelligence and character, and Gardner delineates the fundamental position of the conditions within which someone works and the an important reactions of the encircling workforce of educated friends. He reveals that an important portion of the inventive procedure is the aid of being concerned people who think within the progressive rules of the creators. And he files the truth that notable creativity generally incorporates with it notable charges in human phrases.

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Bei einer Befragung kommt außerdem noch der Aspekt der Bereitwilligkeit, etwas von sich preiszugeben, ins Spiel. Trotzdem können wir aus den Antworten einiges lernen. 4 Beide fanden Hinweise auf das Vorhandensein von Universalien – dieselben Arten von Auslösern riefen quer durch die unterschiedlichsten Kulturen dieselben Emotionen hervor. Beide fanden aber auch Indizien für kulturelle Unterschiede bei den spezifischen Ereignissen, die eine Emotion auslösten. So wirkte beispielsweise der Verlust von etwas Wichtigem in jeder Kultur als Auslöser für das Gefühl der Trauer; was aber im einzelnen als Verlust dargestellt wurde, das variierte von einer Kultur zur nächsten.

Ich nehme zwar an, dass dem Sehen eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt, doch das spiegelt vielleicht nur meine persönliche Neigung wider. Ich war mein Leben lang überaus empfänglich für das, was ich sah, mein Interesse an Gefühlen begann ja damit, dass mich Gesichtsausdrücke so besonders faszinierten. Im Folgenden sollten wir davon ausgehen, dass jedes Sinnesorgan die automatischen Bewertungsmechanismen mit Informationen versorgen kann. 30 Gefühle lesen sowohl universale als auch individuelle, höchstpersönliche Emotionsauslöser geben kann.

20 Was ich schreibe, ist von dieser Arbeit inspiriert, doch wissen wir gegenwärtig noch nicht genug über das Gehirn, um einen Großteil der in meinem Buch aufgeworfenen Fragen zu beantworten. Wir wissen eine Menge über emotionales Verhalten, genug, um Antworten auf einige der wichtigsten Fragen zur Rolle von Emotionen in unserem Alltagsleben zu finden. Was ich in den nächsten Kapiteln darlege, basiert zum größten Teil auf meinen eige- 22 Gefühle lesen nen Forschungen zum emotionalen Verhalten, also der genauen Analyse dessen, was ich Menschen aus den verschiedensten Kulturen in den unterschiedlichsten emotionalen Situationen habe tun sehen; daraus leite ich auch ab, was die Menschen meiner Ansicht nach wissen sollten, um ihre eigenen Gefühle besser verstehen zu können.

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