If you want to learn more about human intelligence or why some folks are wicked smart and others seem to just be place holders, rather than fully engaged in their life experience, then perhaps you ought to do a little reading on the subject. After carefully studying how human intelligence is defined and how it works and after reading countless research papers, I have now come to the conclusions of which works I feel are most appropriate on the topic. Now realize there are 100s of theorists on intelligence and different ways of measuring and classifying genius. But most would agree that Howard Gardner, who is certainly well-published is one of the main experts on the topic today.
Now, I've read two of his books and have three more in my reading pile. There is this really cool Used Book Store in Tucson; "Bookman's" and whenever I travel there, I load up with boxes of books for the year. I am getting down to the bottom of the pile now and have the following books by Howard:
Intelligence Reframed - Multiple Intelligences for 21st CenturyMultiple Intelligences - Theory in PracticeCreating Minds (talks about Picasso, Einstein, Gandhi and of course Freud)
I have previously enjoyed;
Frames of MindUnschooled Minds
I briefly scanned:
which was interesting, cool breakdown of leadership w/lots of examples.
Another book I'd recommend is "Profiles of Genius" because that is an eye-opener. I have also in my reading pile; "In the Company of Giants - Candid Conversations with Visionaries of the Digital World".
I'd also recommend Dean Simonton's works and papers, about 260 papers in all, I've read about 80% of them; it's pretty interesting stuff. Needless to say, if you want to understand the creative genius eminent achiever or the super high-IQ anomalies then these are the books and papers I'd recommend you start with. Think on this.
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