Creativity is a habit. The problem is that schools sometimes treat it as a bad habit.
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Robert Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg (born 1949) is an American psychologist at Cornell University, best known for the triarchic theory of intelligence — analytical, creative and practical — and for the triangular theory of love built on intimacy, passion and commitment. A past president of the APA and Eastern Psychological Association, he ranks among the 60 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century. In 2018 a self-citation review of his work as editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science (rates of 42 to 65 percent across eight non-peer-reviewed pieces) and subsequent retractions for duplication forced his resignation. He stands as the rare case where a major theoretical contribution and a serious research integrity episode are discussed in the same breath.
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Robert Sternberg's Other Quotes
Successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve important goals. People who succeed, whether by their own standards or by other people's, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply a full range of intellectual skills, rather than relying on the inert intelligence that schools so value.
Intelligence tests are convenient partial operationalizations of the construct of intelligence, and nothing more. They do not provide the kind of measurement of intelligence that tape measures provide of height.
Love consists of three components: intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment.
I study what I stink at.
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