When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.