NETWORKS & THE CREATIVE PROCESS

THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY

THE BRAIN IN CONTEXT

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THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

GARDNER & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

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COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES

A DIVERSE SAMPLE OF CREATORS

FINDING UNITY IN DIVERSITY

MODERNISM: THE COMMON ZEITGEIST

DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME

HOW DOES GARDNER’S WORK RELATE TO

NETWORKS?

Gardner’s Model

Individual As Child & Master

The Work, Relevant

Symbol system in domain

Other Persons, family, peers,

judges

Gardner’s Model

A CONFLUENCE OF INFLUENCES

INTERACTION BETWEEN CHILD & ADULT

WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF CREATIVITY?

A BOURGEOIS BACKGROUND

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CHILDHOOD FANTASIES/PUZZLES

SEEKING OUT THE CITY LIFE

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ON THE MARGIN

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THE ROLE OF PEERS

SOCIAL SUPPORT AT TIME OF BREAKTHROUGH

THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

INTERACTION BETWEEN CREATORS AND THE

DOMAIN

MASTERY OF THE DOMAIN: THE TEN YEAR RULE

ANOMALIES AND PUZZLES

STEPPING OUTSIDE THE DOMAIN

A NEW SYMBOL SYSTEM

RECONSTRUCTING THE DOMAIN

ON-GOING CAREERS

RELATIONSHIP OF CREATOR TO SELF OVER TIME

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

THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE

THE ARTIST’S LIFE

LIFE OF THE PERFORMER

ASYMMETRIES & OPPORTUNITIES?

HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES?

EPILOGUE: THE SYNAPTIC SELF

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 ?