Reviews
“The latest view of intelligence combined with a compelling autobiography…An insightful memoir from an eminent psychologist.”
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— Kirkus Review
“a thoroughly engrossing dissection of the interplay between the personal life of one of our most distinguished cognitive psychologists and the revolutionary idea that still resonates with educators and practitioners across a number of disciplines”
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Bowling Green Daily News
“In this book…he is ‘bearing witness to myself.’ His openness — including self-scrutiny — is a breath of fresh air.”
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The Providence Journal
What People Are Saying
"It’s been quipped that theories in psychology are true of those who propose them, and that’s certainly the case with Howard Gardner: creative, openminded, artful, disciplined, and in command of multiple intelligences. It’s a cause for celebration that one of our most influential living psychologists has trained his insight onto his own life and work."
— Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
“Read this book for Gardner’s self-reflection — a mind that synthesizes ideas writing about how it came to be a mind that synthesizes ideas — and for what he has to say about the changing academic and intellectual world around him. Are we narrowing our focus when we most need open minds?”
— Sherry Turkle, Professor, MIT
“In a world where brains and neurons have too readily been exploited as explanations for human behavior, Howard Gardner’s much awaited memoir takes us in a different direction: into the life of the mind. More impressively still, this deeply reflective text opens up to every reader’s inspection the extraordinary mind in the life of one of the greatest and most frequently cited intellectuals of modern times."