Five Minds for the Future - Howard Gardner Book Review Submitted to: Mr. Imran Saqib Submitted by: Zulfiqar Ali Date: 19/12/12 Table of Contents About the Author: 2 Summary 2 Applying the Book to Human Resource Management 6 Conclusion 6 About the Author: Howard Gardner is a renowned American Psychologist and writer who currently holds a position as an adjunct professor at Harvard University. Among numerous honors‚ Gardner had received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and honorary
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I believe that the human mind will be the gods. All from the fact that the cell phone in your pocket today‚ is a million times cheaper‚ a million times smaller‚ and a thousand times more powerful than a $60 million dollar super computer was in the 1960s. That’s a billion fold increases in price and performance‚ and that’s not stopping. So in the next quarter of a century‚ blood cell like computers will be billions of times more powerful and will be interfacing with our biological forces‚ and to
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Spain‚ being recently unified‚ wanted spices and gold. The gold to them could purchase anything. So they offered Christopher Columbus ten percent of the profit‚ if he would bring back gold and spices. Christopher Columbus was sent to Asia with three ships: the Nina‚ the Pinta‚ and the Santa Maria. Columbus sailed for thirty-three days not sighting land. It wasn’t until early October of 1492 that he and his crew finally landed. He supposedly was the first to sight land and received a ten thousand
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The human mind is something scientists have been trying to comprehend forever. Science can not alter how the mind communicates with one’s body‚ or even how it works. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein uses the creation of a fake being to emphasize the fact that the human mind cannot be altered or replicated effectively. Dr. Frankenstein thought he would be able to create and control the mind of a creature. He had tried many times‚ but to no avail. After talking with a professor‚ he finally figured out a
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Columbus‚ the Indians‚ Human Progress When Columbus reached land in the Bahamas he was greeted by the Arawak’s who were without clothing. They greeted Columbus and his men with gifts of food and water. Columbus instantly knew that he and his men could subjugate them and make them do whatever they want. The Arawak’s were remarkable for their hospitality and their beliefs in sharing which‚ were not present in the Europeans. The reasoning for Columbus’ voyage to the Americas was because Spain was
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My book of choice was 5 Minds for the Future. This book talks about the important role that the mind plays in our future. According to Gardner (2008)‚ by learning new ways and recognizing how to think‚ we attain more achievement in the professional and business worlds. In this book‚ the author describes the minds he believes we should develop in the future; the disciplinary mind‚ the synthesizing mind‚ the creating mind‚ the respectful mind‚ and the ethical mind (Gardner‚ 2008). The author also talks
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"Don’t judge a book by its cover . Don’t be quick to judge . Before you can judge ‚ make sure you are perfect. When you judge‚ the the other four fingers of your hands are pointing back at you. " are quotes from revered people like Nick Vujicic. However‚ it is indispensible that it is a whole different world in reality. People are quick to judge to bring down others for the sake of ’fun’ and ’pleasure’. Amber Rose scandal illustrates how quick people seize opportunities to judge and shame
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Reflection of Five Minds for the Future The concepts and arguments about Gardner’s five minds enriched me a lot‚ and made me think further about the capabilities and skills people should equipped with to handle the new world in the future individually and cooperatively. As a master student‚ I feel that subjects in commerce will cultivate my cognition and interpersonal skills by developing disciplined‚ synthesizing‚ creating‚ respectful‚ and ethical minds. In a few years time‚ when I become a business
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The Future of Human Evolution Alexander R. Prof. Kohn Darwinism and Evolution 12-6-96 Evolution‚ the science of how populations of living organisms change over time in response to their environment‚ is the central unifying theme in biology today. Evolution was first explored in its semi-modern form in Charles Darwin ’s 1859 book‚ Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. In this book‚ Darwin laid out a strong argument for evolution. He postulated that all species have a common ancestor
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Samuel Katz 3/28/12 Human Cloning and the Future In his work from 2002 “Religion and Human Cloning: An Exploratory Analysis of the First Available Opinion Data”‚ John Evans proudly states a few possible benefits‚ or advantages‚ of human ‘therapeutic’ cloning. While talking about embryonic stem cells‚ he states “these cells can eventually be used to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s‚ and kidney failure‚ to name but a few…”(748). These possibilities have mostly
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