Resources

In addition to Discovering Your Intelligence, featured on this website, many other books are available on the subject of using your mind well. Following are a number of useful books on intelligence, creative thinking, and critical thinking.

Intelligence

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction –Ian J. Deary

Teaching the Twelve Qualities of Active Mindpower: Educating Students in Applying Intelligence –Thomas Ganey (forthcoming)

Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons –Howard Gardner

Emotional Intelligence —Daniel Goleman

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School —John Medina

Test Your IQ —Alfred W. Munzert

IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea —Stephen Murdoch

The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ —David Shenk

Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life —Robert J. Sternberg

Creative Thinking

The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas —David Burkus

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step —Edward de Bono

How to Get Ideas —Jack Foster

The Creative Process: Reflections on Invention in the Arts and Sciences —Brewster Ghiselin, ed.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation —Steven Johnson

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques —Michael Michalko

Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small —Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres

Critical Thinking

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions —Dan Ariely

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking —M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking —Malcolm Gladwell

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average —Joseph T. Hallinan

Thinking, Fast and Slow —Daniel Kahneman

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies . . . How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths —Michael Shermer

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets —Nassim Nicholas Taleb