5 Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner, The United State of America, Harvard Business School publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163.
The 5 Minds connection different depth of consciousness. Gardner stated that the 5 minds are very important for the survival of main kind. In order for people to get alone they must have certain personality. The world is becoming diverse, and you have to be able to respect people that culture is different from you. Gardner was a critic of unrestricted free speech. He observes people when they were not aware of him.
Intelligences come from creating minds and disciplined in the areas of work you do. Thus whether disciplined or creative, a poet depend on linguistic intelligence, an architect on spatial intelligence, a therapist on interpersonal intelligence (pg.14 5 Minds).
Globalization, science and technology, is cost the world a lot of money. There is nothing we can do with global warming but we can communicate with other countries and be respectful with ethical standards to all parties. Gardner believe you must have an understanding of art, literature and philosophy to understand the world we live in, also to be able to talk to the new generations (while avoiding “inside baseball” curricula that speak only to those with professional stake in the field” pg14. The future belongs to individuals that make an active, lifelong commitment to learn continual.
Disciplined is the first mind set, where you learn skills of planning, executing, critiquing, and teaching writing. In order to mastery a discipline you must have the knowledge of the human mind or human behavior .Gardner used control groups to analyze the data he receives. For fifteen years he research leadership and ethic across the professions at the university. Scientific studies, state discipline is a crafts, because you master knowledge because it is continually changing.
Synthesizing is putting the information together, and making sense of it. A law firm must consider the job, and then assign jobs basic on their skills; these people know the job and are an expert in this area. Gardner talks about the story of Adam and Eden and how knowledge was pass down through generation orally .The Bible represents knowledge toward religious and moral messages. Societies believe that we are self-conscious about the knowledge of literacy from the next generation. The Western secular look at Pre-Socratic philosopher’s knowledge to be the first to sought order as the world was understood at that time. Aristotle for two millennia was known as the philosopher.
The ability to put vital information together, and trace similar lineages in major cultural traditions. Nobel Prize- winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann said the mind in the twenty-first century will be synthesized. Gardner synthesizing massive amount of data, intelligence and challenge the strategic big picture. Domain-species individual cognition is remarkably: as a species we learn skills in contexts and resist broader application and wider generalization. When synthesizing is cultivated it’s premature, misguided, or fundamentally wrong. The minds must grapple with forces that are against its proper realization.
Here are the kinds of synthesis; Narratives, taxonomies, complex concepts, rules and aphorisms, powerful metaphor, images, and themes. The synthesis is the first step to turning a business around. It is important to have a strategy to executive that has a solid based.
The creating minds in the past was not sought after nor rewarded. John Seely Brown said “I create’, therefore I am. He said if you fully endorse creativity and hope it will reveal the secret of its attainment. Creativity emergent from the interaction of three autonomous elements: individual, domain, social field.
Gardner interviewed people in the field of psychology and people of whom wrote numerous papers on the functionality of the mind. His purpose of writing this book was to show how all people are not on the same accord, I believe he explained his purpose very well because I can see it in society today. Parents are a child’s first role model and it has an effect on their children thinking as well as their culture.
My experience that is displayed from this book is as a teacher and working with children that come from low income families, children with special needs, and single parent homes they all suffer from a different set of mind. For example a child from a single parent home may lack discipline due to their parents working and never really seeing them and therefore they are often times left to learn to take care of themselves and siblings at an early age.
