Hi! Are you interested in learning more
about the theory of multiple intelligences? This is a theory developed by Howard Gardner,
and I'm going to give you an overview of how it came about, and I'm
also going to go into detail of specific traits and characteristics of
all of the nine types, so stick around! I'm Janice, you're watching Sharp Cookie.
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let's talk about how this theory came about, when it came about, and how it was
popularized. Now during the 1970's when Gardner was doing his research, it was
widely believed that you could come up with a person's intelligence, and they
determined that as the IQ score, and people generally believed and accepted
that you were born with a certain level of intelligence and that's what you had
your whole life, and this was the IQ score, and Gardner just didn't believe
this. He didn't buy into it. Based on his research, he found that
1.) Intelligence was not static. It wasn't like something you were born with and
that's what you had the rest of your life. And 2.) He also believed that these
IQ tests were mainly only testing certain types of intelligence, which is
fine, but you also have to recognize that people have other types besides just
logical reasoning types and sometimes spatial reasoning on these tests. There's
many other types of intelligence that other human beings have, and it's a great
theory, and I really personally resonated with it because
I don't believe that some people are just intelligent in everything and
others aren't. We all have specific strengths and specific weaknesses.
I especially love this metaphor of fish being really bad at climbing trees,
so that's the truth of humans. We're good at some things and not good at
others, and that's particularly why I'm interested in this theory.
Now this theory gained huge popularity in the 80's. In 1983 he
published his book "Frames of Mind," which you can obviously find online and read
if you find this stuff super interesting and that really took this theory to a
whole new level. Now Gardner believes that you can decide
"Hey, I want to increase my musical intelligence," and you can work on that,
and I believe that as well. As a tutor, I see this all the time. Kids really can improve
and do better on areas that they choose to. If you do 50 math problems a day,
that part of your intelligence, that logical and reasoning part, will improve.
So I definitely agree with what I'm seeing with Gardner's theory. So a common
question people ask is "Is there a test?" Can I just take a test and know which
intelligence I am and how high I am in certain ones and lower in others?
And the answer is there are tests out there, but Gardner himself has not come out
with a test, so anything that you find online is not endorsed nor created by
Howard Gardner. The first type of intelligence that I want to
talk about is the Naturalist intelligence. So this type of intelligence is our
attunement with the environment. So clouds, rock formations, other animals
and species, insects, fish, mammals. Our understanding and skill level with all
of that. So usually it relates to the sciences. And people who have high
intelligence in this area might be zoologists, geologists, biologists.
Other types of people could be the ones that want to
get even more involved in the environment, in plants. So for example, gardeners,
farmers, landscapers. These are all types of people who have high
naturalist intelligence. And as far as hobbies go,
they often enjoy the outdoors, so that makes a lot of sense.
They like hiking, camping, fishing, hunting. All of these activities that take them
outside. So the next type of intelligence is called Musical intelligence, and on
this type of intelligence, people have a very high ability to discern tone, pitch,
rhythm, all the things having to do with music. So as kids they might be the type
that are always humming or drumming or tapping their feet to a rhythm.
They often can also hear sounds that other people can't hear, so their
discernment between different sounds is very, very good.
So obviously careers related to this would be professional musicians,
composers, conductors, anybody related to the music field. The next type is called
Logical Mathematical intelligence, and this is the type that is typically
tested on many IQ tests, so people assume that if you have a high score on an IQ
test, you're intelligent, and people who don't are not, but according to Gardner's
theory you might be very high in this particular area, which is great but you
could be lower in something like Naturalist intelligence or Musical
intelligence, which we all know is not tested in schools, it's not on standardized tests,
and you don't see it on IQ tests. Mathematical Logical intelligence
is very close to what it sounds like. You're good at numbers, you're
very good at problem-solving, coming up with hypotheses. Your mind is very
logical and step-by-step, so careers with this obviously mathematicians,
accountants, scientists, people who have a very logical mind like one plus two is three.
These are the type of people that will score very high typically on IQ tests
and also on many standardized tests. They're also the type that probably
found a lot of subjects in school very easy because our school system is geared
towards this type of intelligence. The next type is called
Existential intelligence, and this one I was really excited to read about
because I personally connect with it. This is the type of intelligence where
people connect to the bigger life questions, those existential questions like
"Why do we exist? Why are we here? Why does this planet exist?"
And it also relates to spirituality, and you can understand why that is there,
that connection between the existential questions and spirituality. So a lot of
spiritualists, theologians, and philosophers have very high Existential intelligence.
The next type is Interpersonal intelligence, and this is the skill for communicating
with others both verbally and non-verbally. So people that score very high in this area are usually counselors, psychologists,
people who really get in tune with how someone else is thinking or feeling.
They can really easily pick up on subtle cues maybe even in body language
or in tone of voice that other people can't pick up on. People with this
type of intelligence also make really good politicians, salespeople, and actors.
The next type is Bodily Kinesthetic intelligence, and as it sounds, this is the ability
to move physical objects and your own body. So some people who have a
high level of skill in this area are obviously athletes and professional dancers.
They understand proprioception or where their body is in space. They have the
ability to manipulate their body very easily and also manipulate other objects,
so some of these people just like to use their hands, so they're craftspeople,
maybe they're contractors. They're the guy down the street who likes to build
surfboards in his garage. These are the type that have high
Bodily Kinesthetic intelligence. The next type is Linguistic Verbal intelligence, and along with the logical intelligence and mathematical that I
talked about, this is the other main intelligence that our school system
really values and tests and appreciates. And this is the type of intelligence
that has to do with language, so the written language and how it's spoken,
grammar, writing skills, so people who are very high in this intelligence are very
good readers. They have an excellent vocabulary, and they're often really
great writers. So professional writers, professional journalists, and novelists.
All the people within those professions tend to have a high level of skill
in Verbal intelligence. Now I already mentioned interpersonal
intelligence, which is our attunement with others, but there's another type,
and this type is called Intrapersonal intelligence, and this is our attunement with ourselves.
So some people are very highly intelligent with their own emotional states,
thoughts, reactions to things. So these are people who perhaps
like to meditate and watch their thoughts. They enjoy journaling every day, being
really in tune with "What is my emotional state at this moment? How am I feeling?"
They can often watch their thoughts come in as they react to certain situations.
So of course like all the types, if you want to improve in this type, you can!
You can build skills. I noticed in myself I've been meditating for many years, and
as time goes on, I become very aware of when a certain event happens, what
corresponding thought is triggered, and I can decide how I want to react or not
react or what emotional state comes up based on a particular thought. Now people
who score highly on this type of intelligence, and when I say score I don't mean
there's a test, I mean they just have a high level in this type
of intelligence are spiritual teachers and leaders. People who really
understand. So someone like Eckhart Tolle would be scoring very, very high on this,
and if you've read up any of his books, you know what I'm talking about. So this
is exactly what interpersonal intelligence is all about, and this leads us right
into the ninth type which is Visual Spatial intelligence, and I found
that there are some IQ tests that test this type of intelligence very strongly,
so if you take one of those and you're high in this area, you're gonna do really,
really well, and that is your ability to manipulate objects and things in your
mind. So for example, if I ask you "What would a left-hand glove looked like if I
turn it inside out?" Someone with high visual spatial intelligence would find
this task very easy because they could very easily imagine a glove being turned
inside out and what that would look like. And people who would score low are going to
look at you like "I have no clue what that is." They're also really good at those
abstract reasoning puzzles or they'll show a picture of an object and
ask you what would it look like if you rotated that object 90 degrees. So as you
can imagine, architects score very highly in this area, so do engineers, artists,
sculptors, people with the ability to see and manipulate things in space. They also
tend to be very visual, so if you've seen my video on the visual learning style,
this really connects with visual spatial intelligence. If you found this video helpful,
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