Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
We have begun work on what we call the 4:5:1 model at the Centre for Real-World Learning (see Figure 9.1). In the inner ring are what we think of as the four main compartments of the learning tool-kit: investigating, experimenting, imagining and reasoning.
Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart

Exercise Four: What Are You Good At?
Ken Robinson • Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999), the first of which he believes should be added to the basic seven: (1) naturalist intelligence, as an ability to draw upon features of the natural environment, (2) and existential intelligence, which signals human concerns with ultimate issues and the nature of existence.12
... See moreCatherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Howard Gardner (developmental psychologist) on 7 Types of Leadership that can help understand the way different people think:
Linguistic: ability to speak and write well
Logic-mathematical: ability to use logic and mathematical skills to solve problems
Spatial: ability to think and reason about objects in three dimensions
Musical: ability to perform
In Roche’s studies of executives, the average number of mentors was two and among females it was three. Dean Keith Simonton explains: Prospective pupils should draw upon many mentors rather than just one. The same advice has been given in choice of models, and for the same reason. With many mentors on which to base their personal growth, talented
... See moreEric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
focusing the collective efforts of the firm’s principals around carefully chosen areas of experience would…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
That’s not the end of the story, however, and this is where Cattell’s work matters. Fluid intelligence isn’t the only kind—there is also crystallized intelligence. This is defined as the ability to use a stock of knowledge learned in the past. Think once again about the metaphor of a vast library. But this time, instead of regretting how slow the
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life "This book is amazing" - Chris Evans
Binet, a Frenchman working in Paris in the early twentieth century, designed this test to identify children who were not profiting from the Paris public schools, so that new educational programs could be designed to get them back on track.