networks & the creative process the creative personality
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Gardner’s Model
Individual As Child & Master
The Work, Relevant
Symbol system in domain
Other Persons, family, peers,
judges
Gardner’s Model
A BOURGEOIS BACKGROUND
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SEEKING OUT THE CITY LIFE
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ON THE MARGIN
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INTELLECTUAL COMPARISONS
Strength Weakness
Freud Linguistic, personal Spacial, musical
Einstein Logica-spatial personal
Picasso Spatial, personal, body
scholastic
Stravinsky Musical, artistc
Elliot Linguistic, scholastic Musical, bodily
Graham Bodily, linguistic Logical-mathematic
Gandhi Personal, linguistic artistic
PERSONALITY & MOTIVATION
Disregard-ing others
Difficult towards others
Frankly sadistic
Einstein-Elliot
Ghandi Picasso
StravinskyGrahamFreud
SELF PROMOTION
Ordinary self promotion
Extraordinary self promotion
Einstein Picasso
Eliot Stravinsky
Gandhi Freud
Graham
BLOGGING QUESTION
Gardner focuses on the modernist period. To what extent do you believe that his
conclusions might hold true today. How much does Zeitgeist matter, and in what ways. Are
there generic ways to characterize the ‘environment,’ that might allow for comparison
between different historical periods ?