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--