Synthesising Mind

A synthesizing mind readily performs these functions:

- selecting crucial information from the copious amounts available

"...The amount of accumulated knowledge is reportedly doubling every two to three years..."

Howard Gardner, 2006a

- the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others

- recognizing new information/skills that are important and then incorporating them into one's knowledge base and into one's professional repertoire

- ideally this starts in childhood, becomes more deliberate over the time and continues as new knowledge accumulates and needs to be digested and organised