


Have you ever looked at the expression on a stranger's face and known exactly what he or she was feeling? If you have, did you know exactly what to say to make things better? If the answer is yes, you've got social intelligence, and you may do well as a social worker, teacher or sales-person. Artists, designers and architects have lots of visual smarts, as exemplified by people like Pablo Picasso, Yousef Karsh, and Emily Carr. This kind of intelligence is about seeing the world in pictures and being able to visualize and manipulate objects inside your head. If you can draw realistic images or navigate a mall after looking at the directory once, you've got spatial smarts and visual intelligence. This kind of intelligence is strong in musicians, and exhibited by people such as Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Glenn Gould. If you can enjoy music, can carry a tune, tell if someone is singing flat, or tap out a rhythm, you've got musical intelligence. Babe Ruth, Rudolf Nureyev, and Maurice Richard had this kind of intelligence in spades. Linguistically gifted people include William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Northrop Frye.Įven if you've never run a marathon or captained a sports team, physical intelligence means you can get your body to do what you want it to, whether you're moving your little finger or whole body, acting onstage, shooting a hockey puck, or performing surgery. Writers, scholars and journalists have strengths in this area. If you can talk your way out of a jam, write an excellent complaint letter, or read assembly instructions (and understand them!), you've got linguistic intelligence. it's how you use them that counts in linguistic intelligence. Perhaps more importantly, it can help you realize that you're smarter than you ever thought you were.
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Recognizing the unique way you think, learn and solve problems can help you realize your full potential at work or play. All of us have different abilities, talents, and strengths, in different categories of intelligence, and in different combinations.

On top of the usual math, logic and language smarts, you can be smart in music, in physical movement, in visualization abilities, and even in your dealings with other people. It's called The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. We now know that people can be smart in a number of different areas. If you believe there's more to intelligence than IQ, you're not alone.
