Table of Contents

* Introduction: Toward a Science of Extraordinariness * Ordinary Development * Extraordinary Development * Master: The Case of Mozart * Maker: The Case of Freud * Introspector: The Case of Woolf * Influencer: The Case of Gandhi * Varieties of Extraordinariness * Lessons

About the Author

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honours, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.