getting into the alpha state more often, both at work and at home,
is beneficial to their creativity.
And in today’s climate, as David Meier puts it:The greatest threat to any organization is not the lack of ability or
resources, but the failure of imagination.Multiple intelligences
More than anyone, psychologist Howard Gardner has revolutionized
the concept of intelligence by introducing the idea that there is not
one but eight intelligences. Interestingly, Gardner started in the
1980s with seven, introduced an eighth, the naturalist intelligence,
in the 1990s, and has recently been toying with a ninth, existential
intelligence.
Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is a profoundly
important link in the chain between learning and creativity. If you
accept that each person has many intelligences, it is an easy step to
assume that being creative means being able to harness the fullest
potential of each of your intelligences.
By suggesting that there are many intelligences, Gardner has
given us an implicit definition of creativity that moves us away from
the act of creating a new artistic product toward the notion that
each of us has the potential to develop each of our intelligences.
Creativity becomes much more a state of being than a privileged
artistic activity. Learning and creativity are created by dint of any
competent learner wanting to be able to harness their potential in
as many of their intelligence areas as possible.
While Howard Gardner has argued for seven, then eight, and
most recently nine intelligences, I believe that there are ten. But,
whether I am right or wrong, what is important is that there is more
than the one intelligence that has dominated so much of western
thought, IQ.152 Power Up Your Mind
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