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Help with a college assignment
Hi everyone,
I need you help with a college assignment. We are studying Howard Gardener's theory of multiple intelligences and for this assignment I need to ask quite a few people which of the nine intelligence(s) is/are the strongest within themselves and how has that worked to their advantage.
So... from these descriptions below... which ones fit you the best?
I need you help with a college assignment. We are studying Howard Gardener's theory of multiple intelligences and for this assignment I need to ask quite a few people which of the nine intelligence(s) is/are the strongest within themselves and how has that worked to their advantage.
So... from these descriptions below... which ones fit you the best?
| Intelligence | Skills and Career Preferences | |
| 1. | Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence Well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words |
Skills - Listening, speaking, writing, teaching. Careers - Poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, translator |
| 2. | Mathematical-Logical Intelligence Ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and capacity to discern logical or numerical patterns | Skills - Problem solving (logical & math), performing experiments Careers - Scientists, engineers, accountants, mathematicians |
| 3. | Musical Intelligence Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber |
Skills - Singing, playing instruments, composing music Careers - Musician, disc jockey, singer, composer |
| 4. | Visual-Spatial Intelligence Capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly |
Skills - puzzle building, painting, constructing, fixing, designing objects Careers - Sculptor, artist, inventor, architect, mechanic, engineer |
| 5. | Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence Ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully |
Skills - Dancing, sports, hands on experiments, acting Careers - Athlete, PE teacher, dancer, actor, firefighter |
| 6. | Interpersonal Intelligence Capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others |
Skills - Seeing from other perspectives, empathy, counseling, co-operating Careers - Counselor, salesperson, politician, business person, minister |
| 7. | Intrapersonal Intelligence Capacity to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes |
Skills - Recognize one’s S/W, reflective, aware of inner feelings Careers - Researchers, theorists, philosophers |
| 8. | Naturalist Intelligence Ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature |
Skills - Recognize one’s connection to nature, apply science theory to life Careers – Scientist, naturalist, landscape architect |
| 9. | Existential Intelligence Sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why do we die, and how did we get here |
Skills – Reflective and deep thinking, design abstract theories Careers – Scientist, philosopher, theologian |
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Musical Intelligence all the way, baby! I got the rhythm, I got the style!
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Is your project going to be full of things like "Talked with Alison Blaire" and "So he can get out of the way of explosions" or "Really helpful when tracking people down to murder them"? Because that'll be a weird paper and I want to see your teacher's reaction.
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Visual-Spatial, it is really helpful when tracking people down to murder themI tease, although I suspect my intelligence type lends itself to Visual-Spatial, I use it for reasons of art.
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It's really useful to be able to think logically when dragging Reed out of trouble too.
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Fine. Um...Interpersonal Intelligence/Mathematical-Logical Intelligenc
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I considered Visual-Spatial Intelligence and Bodily-Kinesthetic, but that's all mutation talking, so back to verbal-linguistic. Bio-Dad made sure reading and writing and thinking was a priority and it stuck.
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I think I heard you're a bar tender... They were one of the examples of people with interpersonal intelligence. Might that on fit you?
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You'd think it was body-kinth, but that's all the mutation talking, I was the clumsiest fucking kid you ever met before I went all teen wolf.
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Don't think anyone here will put it in your personal records though.
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There is a clear advantage to my specific type of knowledge, as evidenced by the skills in the second column. I have to say, I find this line of questioning strange, due to the fact that it perhaps is a little biased. If I know I have this type of intelligence, it is far easier for me to make certain correlations showing how it is to my advantage. It would be more interesting to see which intelligence is the lowest in a person, and then have them determine that advantage, showing that one's strengths can lie in their very own weakness.
But I digress.
The clear advantage to logical thinking is that I am able to follow a rational and pragmatic line of thought, from it's very conception to it's natural conclusion. Theoretical work, which stems from a more formal type of processing, is also easily attainable. There is no problem that is unsolvable, only one for which no answer is known.
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The advantage bit: if I’m pursuing a Master’s degree in Marine Biology and Oceanography that could count as using the Naturalist one. Maybe? And either way, being able to connect to either the people or the marine life must be an advantage that could be mentioned.
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