Thinking About Success
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. In his new book, Five Minds for the Future (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), he looks at the kind of intelligence needed to succeed in business in the 21st Century.
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How can your Dr. Gardner say that printing cartoons about the profit Muhammed is "vicious?" How about the completely irrational reaction that resulted in the deaths of nuns and burning of embassy buildings. What is truly vicious?
oh i think something about the way we collectively see the world (gotta be no 1) creates hyper-competitive robots who lack imagination to solve the problems of the day and prevent the ones we are creating for the future! Of course their many kind of intelligence but they are sorely undervalued and under-compensated.
How common is it that very intelligent people never acheive their potential success simply because they lack the requisite discipline? Do we even know who the "intelligent" ones are since they may never bother to shine themselves?
For example, while in college a friend who was extremely intelligent (he partied A LOT yet would regularly get A's in classes he bothered taking the final for w/o even attending or studying for them aside from last minute cramming-we were all in awe of him and called him Goodwill Hunting).
Well, in the end he did graduate (not as high as he could've) and he chose to simply puruse a path in life that brought him happiness (which his parents supported as your guest mentioned) versus generating the most $$$.
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