8 Intelligences: Are You a Jack of All Trades or a Master of One? | Howard Gardner
What does it mean when someone calls you smart or intelligent? According to developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, it could mean one of eight things. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink...
========== Currently I think there are eight intelligences
that I’m very confident about and a few more that I’ve bene thinking about. I’ll
share that with our audience. The first two intelligences are the ones which IQ tests
and other kind of standardized tests valorize and as long as we know there are only two
out of eight it’s perfectly fine to look at them. Linguistic intelligence is how well
you’re able to use language. It’s a kind of skill that poets have, other kinds of writers,
journalists tend to have linguistic intelligence, orators. The second intelligence is logical
mathematical intelligence. As the name implies logicians, mathematicians, scientists have
that kind of intelligence. They’re able to do mathematical proofs. They’re able
to...