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Five Minds for the Future
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Five Minds for the Future


Cognitive Capacities

by David Meyer

Howard Gardner, a brilliant thinker about thought, describes the mental capacities everyone must develop to succeed today and in the future.

Howard Gardner – Harvard psychologist, MacArthur genius grant recipient and prolific author – started a revolution when he argued that human capability can’t be reduced to a single metric. Rather than accepting IQ as the arbiter of cognitive capacity, Gardner held that people have “multiple intelligences,” a notion he popularized in his 1983 groundbreaking book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

In this clear, eminently useful follow-up, Gardner describes five cognitive capacities he predicts will be most in demand in the future – abilities he advises everyone to develop and practice. These forms of thought, he notes, are neither innate nor immutable.


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