Changing Minds: How the application of the multiple intelligences (MI) framework could positively contribute to the theory and practice of international negotiation

Abstract

On a bus trip in upstate New York, writer Nicholson Baker fantasized about how he might furnish his apartment. He thought about an imaginative way in which to seat people: He would purchase and install rows of yellow forklifts and orange backhoes throughout his apartment (A backhoe is an excavating machine in which a bucket is tied rigidly to a hinged stick and can be pulled toward the machine). Visitors could sit either on the kinds of buckets used in excavating backhoes or the slings hanging between the forks of the forklifts. Finding whole vision quite intriguing, he began to calculate how many forklifts the floor in his apartment would sustain. But when his thoughts turned again to this exotic form of furnishing some years later, Baker reflected, I find that, without my knowledge, I have changed my mind. I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.