How to access an individual for their creativity: Gardner style

1. address cognitive issues- meaning their natural strengths and weaknesses and evidence of prodigious behavior in early life.

2. looking at personality and motivation-- at the extent to which the individual conforms to the traditional view of the creative personality (which is?)

Nature of relations with others, extent of self-promotion, and kinds of childlie features that seem "preserved in these creative masters" 42

Also how individuals express emotions and a "degree of tension they had to sustain in their lives" 42

3. Turning to Social psychological natures-- relationships between child/parent; attitude toward discipline and permissiveness in the home; degree of "marginality" (in relation to society)

4. Finally, Gardner looks at life patterns- the "peaks and valleys in the productivity"; particularly during a ten year span--

Howard's thougths:

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity

In relatively pure form, the claim is that history has its own dynamic, with specific issues and ideas necesarily coming to the fore at a given time, and then giving way in crisp fashion to another set of issues at another time" 14

"In recent years, the innovative French scholar Michel Foucautl argued that history eras are characterized by certain underlying (and typically unconscious) assumptions about the nature of knowledge." 14-15

"when a number of individuals live in the same era and actually know of one another's work, such mutual influence may well become the rule." 15

for INTD:

"many reasons account for common themes and co-occurrences across disciplinary domains; accordingly... it would be odd if highly creative individuals did not somehow take others' novel conceptualizations into account in their own work." 15

"Bourgeois civilization, with its tight-laced moral code, increasingly determined standards of behavior and thought... Still , by the end of the nineteenth century, these entrenched norms were being widely challenged." 16

"Fatal blows to the nineteenth-century consensus were struck in rapid succession around the turn of the century" 16

"A study of each one's efforts, while illuminating in itself, gains significance when considered in light of the parallel even s and insights occurring in the lives of the co-creators of the modern era."