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    Biographical Case Study: Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative, Gifted, and Talented Person.
    Biographical Case Study: Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative, Gifted, and Talented Person.
    Biographical Case Study: Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative, Gifted, and Talented Person.
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    Biographical Case Study: Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative, Gifted, and Talented Person.

    By William Van Zyl

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    ESSAY: The focus of this essay is on Bill Gates as a creative, gifted and talented person (business & entrepreneurship). An easy and very interesting read.

    SEATTLE - If you spend time with the Gates family it is most probable that someone will mention the "water incident". The future software guru was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nasty argument with his mother at the dinner table. His father lost his cool and threw a glass of cold water in the boy's face. The young boy snapped back with something like this: "Hey thanks for the shower!" (Guth, 2009)

    Behind the Bill Gates, a success story, is the other William Gates (Sr.), his father. It is the story of his father about the young Gates junior's early years and the raising of Bill (Jr.) that generates interest by almost everyone. Questions like: 'How did he grow up?'; 'What was his life like as a child in the Gates household?', and 'What was he like in senior high school?' In this case study, I will look primarily at "Raising the young Gates" and I will endeavor to identify patterns and traits of giftedness, talent, and creativity which could be linked to the work of Renzulli (1986), Simonton (2000), Sternberg (2006), and Csikszentmihalyi  (1999a). In the second section, I will look at some influences, time frames, historical, political, economic and social events that shaped the wealthy and very successful Bill Gates (Jr.) to become one of the wealthiest men and most influential men in the world

    Executive Summary

    This case study assesses, analyses, and discusses the prosperous life of the entrepreneur Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft software) as an intelligent, gifted and talented person. The work of Simonton (2000), Sternberg (2006), Renzulli (1986) Csikszentmihalyi (1999a), on talented and gifted persons, shows that Bill Gates fits into three of the four categories outlined by Riley et al. (2004) Ministry of Education (New Zealand), namely:

    1. Intellectual/Academic refers to students with exceptional abilities in one or more of the learning areas (i.e., English, the arts, health and physical education, learning languages, mathematics and statistics, science, social sciences, and technology).

    2. Creativity refers to students with general creative abilities as evidenced in their abilities to problem-find and problem-solve, and their innovative thinking and productivity.

    3.    Social/Leadership refers to students with interpersonal and intra-personal abilities and qualities, which enable them to act in leadership roles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive House Publishing
    Release dateMay 17, 2018
    ISBN9780473438357
    Biographical Case Study: Assessing the Life of Bill Gates as a Creative, Gifted, and Talented Person.
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    William Van Zyl

    The author had an interesting and unique childhood. Not travelling abroad - as you would expect - but venturing into the fields, bushes, tools sheds and mysterious underground tunnels around his neighbourhood. His happy place was - and still is - tinkering with ideas, science, and new possibilities. Many times while cycling he will get new ideas; he brings the unexpected, the unique, the creative in a flurry on a page or in a sketch. To this day he dreams of vicious wars and sophisticated weaponry in an innocent child's scout cave. He loves diagrams, timelines, cross sections, sketches, and details of sinister and hidden concepts and ideas; always looking for a new mystery to decode and to encode. He investigates and explores extravagant thoughts which he includes in children's books, stories and articles; he loves to include philosopher’s perspectives, articles,  intriguing stories, and poetry in his writing. Academic and research work are also his forte. He always offers a simple but practical explanation within an engaging context. Not your ordinary thinker! A lifelong scholar and teacher. 

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      Biographical Case Study - William Van Zyl

      Biographical case study: Assessing the life of Bill Gates as a creative, gifted and talented person.  

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      By William N Van Zyl (edited in 2016)

      Copyright © 2018 by William  Van Zyl

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      Published by First House Publishing

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      First Publishing, 2016

      Second Publishing, 2018

      Contents

      Biographical case study: Assessing the life of Bill Gates as a creative, gifted and talented person.

      Executive Summary

      Introduction

      Short biography of Bill Gates (Pettinger, 2010)

      Bill Gates foundation of Microsoft

      Bill Gates – Windows

      Philanthropic Activities – Bill Gates

      The traits of Bill Gates as a creative and talented person; perspectives of the four researchers referred to in the introduction

      Bill as a diligent learner

      Who is

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