《書目》(Booklist)評論

Starting from the view that brains ought not, and cannot, be measured by IQ tests, Armstrong advocates a nonnumerary way to search for and cultivate one's package of mental powers. Each person's intellect spans linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal ranges. Since his program is popular among Californians, tantamount to an endorsement of his book by the human potential movement, one shouldn't lay it aside lightly--nor with great force, as Dorothy Parker would say. Yet discerning in it any unique departure from the tried-and-true of the self-help genre is impossible. It consists of introductory exempla of famed geniuses, inventories to identify one's abilities, and lists of exercises for the mind. This stuff sells, but would-be divas who wish to retain their pals are advised not to follow Armstrong's advice "to sing all your communications to your friends for an hour or two." ~--Gilbert Taylor