Howard Gardner: Creating Minds
Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi, from the first chapter: “As [one of my goals in writing this book], I seek conclusions about the nature of the Creative Enterprise writ large. I believe that if we can better understand the breakthroughs achieved by individuals deliberately drawn from diverse domains [painters, dancers, scientists, etc], we should be able to tease out principles that govern creative human activity, wherever it arises.”