THE FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE

In this weekly reading, Howard Garder address what people need 5 minds nowadays;disciplined mind,synthesizing mind, creating mind,respectful mind,ethical mind.For me as a international student who are from China, in our culture ,the last two minds would be most important, or it could be seen as the basic personality quality. And Garder especially care to mention the importance of the creative mind which i agree with. Because the creation is becoming the most important quality in China. It is obviously that the population is huge in China, the pressure of competition also extensively in China’s major cities.

For a long time, we all have a dram, which is people trend to summarized those who change the world, and promoting human progress cattle people come to the conclusion that some things in common, to provide reference for the own and later time,like Steve jobs,But this is not an easy thing, the great man a different character, different backgrounds, their success path cannot follow, also not good copy.What if they really have in common, that is they all have very strong creativity.

Overall creativity is a very complicated phenomenon, any single condition is not enough to lead to the generation of ideas.Focus on creative work, enjoy your work and do not care about the details of life.Success is included with the harvest, target is not the beginning.Great achievements of creativity is usually not a brainwave, but the result of the whole, is the process of slow, even last a lifetime.