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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Audiobook, by Howard E Gardner Play Audiobook Sample

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Audiobook

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Audiobook, by Howard E Gardner Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: December 3, 2024
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Read By: Vanessa Johansson Publisher: Basic Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 13.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 10.13 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: December 3, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781668647882

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

31

Longest Chapter Length:

74:41 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

39:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

“There’s a book I recommend for everybody: It’s Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind. It has helped me immensely.” – Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power

What do we mean when we call someone smart? That they are good at math and got a high score on the SAT? That they learn languages easily? Those traits might be what comes to mind first: they are what underly psychology’s classic definition of intelligence, and what we are told in school that a smart person can do. But they are not the whole story.

As Howard Gardner argues in the groundbreaking classic Frames of Mind, to limit our understanding of intelligence to “book smarts” misses much of what makes human beings amazing. Someone who plays an instrument well is exhibiting intelligence. So, too, someone who knows how to do physical comedy—is their mastery of their movements and the space around them not brilliant? And to have a profound knowledge of their own self, their relationships with others, and relationships between others, too, is to show great intelligence as well. 

Gardner calls this the theory of multiple intelligences. But this isn’t just a book for intellectuals who want to argue about what intelligence is, or educators debating how to teach. It is for each of us. In an era of teaching to the test, and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, Gardner’s work is a celebration of all the ways there are to be huma

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About Vanessa Johansson

Vanessa Johansson, Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a film and theater actress and voice-over artist who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.