Ok folks we have looked at the two intelligences that have the easiest times at school - and can actual be bored, so they don't do as well as they could.
The other five areas of intelligences are: existential intelligence, inter.intrapersonal intelligence, bodily - kinesthetic intelligence, visual - spatial intelligence and musical/ naturalist intelligence. The other day I mentioned that we would be looking at the individual whose strongest intelligence area is visual-spatial, but before we go further on this area let us review exactly what intelligence is.
My son has come up with a wonderful view on our mental abilities - KIS.
K stands for the knowledge you know. That is the stuff you know and forget. That would be like you know where you placed your keys today, but tomorrow you forgot where you put them - it is simply knowledge.
I stands for intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to understand abstract concepts. You are born with that, it is not something you can gain or loss (unless you have brain injury) This is the area that we have been talking about for the last few postings.
S stands for smarts. Smarts is how well you put those two together, how well you use your intelligence with the knowledge that you know to accomplish something.
So back to the intelligences. Let us remember that we are talking about that naturally occurring ability to understand certain areas. We are talking about which area is the strongest in an individual. Just because someone is strong in bodily - kinesthetic intelligence it does not mean that you have another super athletic person, it simple means that is their area of intelligence that is the strongest,
I have gotten side tracked here but hopefully my ramble has been enlightening. I will get back to the viusal-spatial intelligence next time.
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