Being Creative Means First Of All Doing

It May Well Be Easier To Remember A List If One Sings It (or Dances To It). However, These Uses Of The 'materials' Of An Intelligence Are Essentially Trivial. What Is Not Trivial Is The Capacity To Think Musically.

I Need To Add That My Work On Multiple Intelligences Received A Huge Boost In 1995 When Daniel Goleman Published His Book On Emotional Intelligence. I Am Often Confused With Dan. Initially, Though Dan And I Are Longtime Friends, This Confusion Irritated Me.

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

In The United States, If You Ask Teachers, "are There Children Whom We Should Call 'gifted?'", Many If Not Most Will Say 'no.' That's The Politically Correct Answer. But If You Then Ask The Teacher To Rank Order Students In Terms Of How Well They Paint Or Write Or Dance, They'll Have Little Difficulty In Doing So.

Perhaps, Indeed, There Are No Truly Universal Ethics: Or To Put It More Precisely, The Ways In Which Ethical Principles Are Interpreted Will Inevitably Differ Across Cultures And Eras. Yet, These Differences Arise Chiefly At The Margins. All Known Societies Embrace The Virtues Of Truthfulness, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness; None Explicitly Endorse Falsehood, Dishonesty, Disloyalty, Gross Inequity. (five Minds For The Future, P136)