8 Intelligences: Are You a Jack of All Trades or a Master of One? With 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.com/videos/howard-gardner-on-the-eight-intelligences Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - 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 do scientific reasoning and experimentation. And it’s great to have language and logical intelligence because most tests really focus on that. And if you do well in those tests as long as you stay in school you think you’re smart. But if you ever walk out into Broadway or the highway or into the woods or into a farm you then find out that other intelligences are at least this important. So the third intelligence is musical intelligence and that’s the capacity to appreciate different kinds of musics, to produce the music by voice or by an instrument or to conduct music. And people say well music is a talent. It’s not an intelligence. And I say well why if you’re good with words is that an intelligence but if you’re good with tones and rhythms and timbres nobody’s ever given me a good answer which is why it makes sense to talk about musical intelligence. And at certain cultures over history musical intelligence has been very important. The fourth intelligence is spatial intelligence. That’s the intelligence which allows us to handle and work in space that’s close by. A chess player would have spatial intelligence. A surgeon would have spatial intelligence. But there’s another variety of spatial intelligence which we use for a much broader navigation. That’s what an airplane pilot or a sea captain would have. How do you find your way around large territory and large space. Similarly with the fifth intelligence bodily kinesthetic intelligence it comes in two flavors. One flavor is the ability to use your whole body to solve problems or to make things. And athletes and dancers would have that kind of bodily kinesthetic intelligence. But another variety is being able to use your hands or other parts of your body to solve problems or make things. A craft person would have bodily kinesthetic intelligence even if they weren’t particularly a good athlete or dancer. Read the Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/9rWj2Q.
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This person, Howard Gardner says he is a psychologist. Assuming that is true, he is not therefor an expert on intelligence, but a totally different academic area, behavior. He seems to have given this subject some thought, which is nice. But I don't believe he is right. To me, these examples are more about skills than intelligence. Indeed, some seem like adjustments to one's usual environment and not intelligence or even a skill. As a psychologist, Howard is more used to behavioral thinking, which includes how one adapts to one's environment. Howards daily forte of behavioral psych is invading his logic. When he mentions a sailor being able to do what most people can't while at sea, that is a sailor adapting to an environment. Being able to write or create music is not an intelligence, but a skill that is developed over time, some people being better at it or faster at learning it than others. Those are the signs of a skill. It's like carving ice sculptures. All of us can do it, but only a few of us do it well, which is usually a measure of practice, not an intelligence at ice carving. Stick to behavior Doc and leave intelligence to others. There are no eight kinds of intelligence; or two or ten or any other number, but one. : >
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(((Howard Gardner)))
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Dam I got 8/8 :) maybe I'm unknowingly a genius
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I have read over 4200 ufo books, guess that means I have extraterrestrial intelligence.
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I've them all 😇
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what about intuitive, or mediumship, or empathic type people, where would those skills fall?
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Intelligence #9 - The ability to ignore idiots.
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there are 2 items 1) intelligence 2) creativity
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All of these intelligences share a strength in pattern recognition and a certain method of the brain to process information that is somewhat different than the average person.
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Everyone is talented, gifted and intelligent at something or many things..........
Also i'd like to point out that to claim only we humans have the ability to ponder............(i.e existential intelligence) the big questions in life is unfounded. Elephants and Dolphins being 2 species i can think of to clarify that point. Just because we have larger brains than most does not make us more intelligent or capable of questioning our existence more than any other species. Brain size is irrelevant given how thoughts and consciousness are chemical and electrical signals and frequencies of light and sound. The true intelligence lays in realizing we dont know as much as we think. Close relatives like apes and monkeys clearly sit and ponder.............and show signs of existential intelligence....... especially Gorillas. If we are indeed just souls inhabiting avatars then there is no reason to doubt that theoretically our souls are recycled into new avatars and not necessarily human ones. Ravens and crows also show extreme intelligence so i disagree with what you say about Humans being the only ones with existential intelligence. -
The final intelligence is the BS intelligence. It's the ability to BS your knowledge and people actually believe it.
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I'm the fucking master of intrapersonal intelligence.13 years of therapy combined with old schooled logic makes me know exactly what goes on inside of me. Still I can't change it, because I have a reoccuring mood disorder :-(
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I argue that intelligence is simply the mental capacity and thought processes which provide for survival and longevity.
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is knowledge an inherent aspect of intelligence? for the 8.intelligence, nature, you need knowledge to differentiate between animal and plant species. but for the other types of intelligence, (f.e. inter & intra personal) knowledge alone is not sufficient to explain those. something is missing. I wonder, what makes an intelligence an intelligence?
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teaching intelligence sounds like a specialized form of interpersonal intelligence.
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Intelligence is Relative. The same way Physical Strength is Relative.
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Q: What if you score average on all the presumably formulated intelligence levels ?
A: You are still average egocentric asshole!
Abstract: a video to make people feel self important, where the universe totally disagree with such statements in general ! -
For me, all I missed are personal and spatial skills.
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The alien designers of this life simulation must smile at these internal observations made by its AI regarding "our" character.
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Wouldnt the teaching intelligence just be a variation of the interpersonal intelligence as well as the existential intelligence be a variation of intrapersonal intelligence?
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