Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Multiple Intelligences Theory
I've always been interested in biography and when I was a young person I read many biographies so it wasn't strange of me to think about writing a personal account memoir. It started out as a memoir of Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences but it transformed into a memoir of what it means to synthesize. Since finishing the book I have probably written 20 or 30 blogs usually 1000 to 2000 words each in which I examine different aspects of synthesizing. Some of them are quite predictable some of them I would never have predicted for example I'm about to post a blog about George III who was the king of England from 1760 to 1820 why because he raises interesting questions about synthesizing.
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