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Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized 1st Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0521002714
ISBN-10: 0521002710
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (September 24, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521002710
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521002714
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #724,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By Kristi Gilleland TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on March 21, 2014
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This book is a wordy walk through on various theories of intelligence, including Sternberg's own theory of triarchic intelligence in which he weighs and analyzes the differences in analytic, creative,and practical intelligence. I think the book is a good listing of nearly ever major work on intelligence theory, but in the end it falls flat and boring. There's not enough anecdotes, practical application, or examples or insight into the testing that is used to determine each.
It's a very interesting subject, but if my sole introduction to it had been through this book, facing years of study in the subject, I think I might suddenly get very creative on how to drop out of school or change my major without my parents killing me.
Chapter 6 has a lot more merit and was more interesting. It is moving towards a model of wisdom. giving a good background on these models. Chapter 7 then discusses foolishness, and breaks it down into fallacies that derail even intelligent people to act foolishly - for instance, when one's thinking becomes overly self-centered, or concerned with omniscience or omnipotence, the intelligence faults into foolishness. Can this be avoided? Can wisdom be taught? The teaching of wisdom is also discussed.
I wasn't at all convinced that this is really describing foolishness in an objective context. It seemed a bit ethnocentric to me. As content though, it oozes with possibility, and so this section of the book was much easier to bear than the rest.
I'm not sure that the book really added much to my understanding of the nature of mind. Rather, I understand models that are being tossed around a lot more.
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I enjoyed Sternberg's history of the concept & how people have fought over what to measure and how to measure it. "Intelligence" turns out to be quite a loaded notion! I found Sternberg's distinction between analytic, creative,and practical intelligence very helpful. It helped me understand why people with a high measured analytic intelligence sometimes fall short of what we think they could achieve.
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