Many different types of intelligence.

I would imagine that some people, and I think this includes more woman than men consider their intuitive faculties as a form of intelligence. I wish I were more intuitive but I'm not. I'm also kinda lacking in the abstract thinking department. I have read any number of lay books about Einstein's theory of relativity and know little more than when I started. If I have any talent at all it's is the ability to visualize things in three dimensions. I think of this because my wife was so helpless in this department and I always considered her a very intelligent person.
 

I never thought I was intuitive, but I did have a premonition a few weeks ago. When I left my house early one morning, the picture of a car in flames flashed across my mind. I shook it off.. but lo and behold, when I got on the freeway, there was a car on fire with flames shooting up into the air. Thankfully, no one was hurt. I wonder why I was able to foretell that.. I've never experienced that before.

As for intelligence.. I learn best with face to face lecture and demonstration. I have to be able to ask questions and get clarification. I have a hard time retaining information by just reading directions or instructions.
 
Josiah09 said:
Yeah Jim, but doesn't everybody have an opinion about who is smart and who is dumb? I think Salimar's invitation to speculate is good grist for our forum.
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I agree. I also.. like QS have a hard time retaining information...and I have never considered myself to be intelligent in the accepted sense of the word, but then I don't believe I'm stupid either...couldn't classify what I am tho'..that would have to be for someone else..
 
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Thank you Shalimar for introducing this fascinating topic, just when I'd been thinking about that very subject. I found this online and apparently there's a book out about it.
 
I've always prided myself in being able to ask probing questions when someone is discoursing on some subject in a less than comprehensive manner. I attribute this to my brain's insistence on translating any input it gets into a comprehensive picture.
 
I think I'm a bit of everything, less of some and more of others, but I think I might read the book before I decide for sure.
 
Interesting subject. Especially the nine types of intelligence. Had no idea....so had to try and find a quiz, based on this. Found this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/what-type-of-intelligence#.raqEZWZ6n
According to the quiz...I am: Visual & Spatial
This intelligence deals with the ability to conceptualize images within your own head, and engage with visual ideas. Typically, this means you’ll be well equipped to solve problems related to shapes, objects, and very able to recognise and analyse objects like faces or scenes. Art, and attractive things, are likely to play an important role in your life.
 
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Thank you Shalimar for introducing this fascinating topic, just when I'd been thinking about that very subject. I found this online and apparently there's a book out about it.
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Hey, Cookie - thanks for the chart. Now we know where the term "Smart Cookie" comes from! As for me, I identify with what this says about Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Interpersonal and Existential but it would be fascinating to know how others see me.
 
I did some post grad study in Gifted and Talented Education and the theory of multiple intelligences was covered. It is important to recognise that traditional IQ tests tend to concentrate on verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical forms of intelligence because they are easy to quantify. Children who are gifted in the areas of music or sport/athletics/dance reveal themselves and are usually recognised early. Those forms of intelligence that are harder to measure tend to get overlooked but they are very important. I'm referring to existential, inter and intrapersonal intelligence. These are essential characteristics for good leadership.

My intellectual strengths are in mathematical/logical and verbal/linguistic so I was picked up early by standard IQ tests and given an enriched education. I spent nine years learning to play the piano with zero success. I am hopeless at anything that requires eye/hand co-ordination and my visual/spatial perception is rudimentary in that I can only cope with 2D diagrams.

It is important to realise that for every one of the set of multiple intelligences there is a continuum. We have our strengths and our weaknesses and should appreciate and make good use of our strengths. If we have a particular strength, we must remember that it was given to us. We are not self made when it comes to intelligence. We do have an obligation to use our strengths, not just to benefit ourselves, but to help those who lack that particular attribute.

While I am hopeless at making music and art, I really appreciate that the creativity of others is available to enrich my life. Because I have I linguistic and mathematical skills I possessed the ideal set to help children learn about maths, computers and science. My level of interpersonal skills is not high enough to become a high level leader but I am a very good support person for those who are. I make a great encourager and have worked well as a deputy or mentor of younger workers new to leadership. My intrapersonal skills allow me to see myself fairly realistically at this point in my life.

My daughter is a nurse and her interpersonal intelligence is much higher than mine. She is now sister in charge of a dental/surgical unit at a major hospital and her biggest challenge is managing the surgeons and dental surgeons who all have big egos and no sense of being part of a team. She is doing very well thanks to a combination of social intelligence and patience.
 
:eek:fftopic: I hope not!!!
Smart 'Cookie"--not this ancient granny who can not understand the workings of her Apple Air iPad, even with a step by step guide from "Complete iPad for Seniors" (for Apple iPad and iPad mini).
That has to mean a total lack of logic and intuition, doesn't it?
Surely, only the very best "brains" are capable of thinking up these wonderful, new gadgets?
So, it follows, if you have any brains at all, you will immediately grasp the logic of modern gadgets???
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I don't fit anything on the chart. I guess you could say, I'm off the chart. I did have an incident happen that upset and saddened me. I dreamed last week a cyber friend died. I thought about it for two or three days and couldn't get it out of mind. I went to the forum to see if she had posted recently, with fingers crossed. There was a notice posted of her death.
 
Perhaps you have an integrated brain where everything is sufficiently balanced so that no particular quality stands out. That upsetting incident around the sad death of your cyber friend is certainly food for thought. My condolences for your loss.
 

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