Howard Gardner

Think about the last time you tried to change someone's mind about something important: a voter's political beliefs; a customer's favourite brand; a spouse's decorating taste. Chances are you weren't successful in shifting that person's beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers...

The influential author and eminent authority on the human mind reflects on his groundbreaking work and the many forms of intelligence—including his own. An authority on the human mind reflects on his intellectual development, his groundbreaking work, and different types of intelligences—including his own. Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenon—a mind-changer. Widely read by the general...