What are Multiple Intelligences?

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Good morning dear Community, we begin this day with an interesting publication that will certainly help us to understand our ability to solve problems, learn, and overcome any obstacle, since we are born and grow up, we have heard a word that we repeat at home and at school, and it is Intelligence, we have always been told that you have to be smart to achieve success in life, to achieve every goal, or realize any dream, but did you know that there are several types of intelligences. You may be wondering, how so, several intelligences, incredible that, but yes, and this thanks to a research done by an American Psychologist and Professor, called Howard Gardner, and is that Professor Gardner taught us that intelligence not only helps us to get good grades in class, in his studies states that human beings need the development of several intelligent, to face life.

Gardner with his collaborators at Harvard University, warn in his theory, that academic intelligence (When he speaks of Academic Intelligence, he refers to obtaining educational degrees, certificates, among other educational merits) is not a decisive factor to know if that person is intelligent or not, and we see that very often in any educational institution, people who get outstanding grades, but still have problems relating to others, or to handle situations in their lives. That is why the Theory of Multiple Intelligences was born, a way to know and understand why we perform better in some areas and in others it costs us a little more.

Linguistic-Verbal Intelligence: Developing our language, whether spoken, written or gestural, is part of this intelligence, and we certainly deserve a lot of it, because it is important to be able to communicate effectively, and you may wonder who are those who develop this intelligence, politicians, writers, poets, journalists, actors.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: Of all the Intelligences that exist, this is the one that has been present the most since the first civilizations were created, that is why it is very similar to the traditional concept of Intelligence. IQ tests are based on this type of intelligence, and those who develop it the most are scientists, economists, academics, engineers and mathematicians.
Musical Intelligence: Music is one of the great universal engines that we humans have to motivate us, to fall in love, to celebrate any triumph among other things, so Gardner and his team, in his theory understood that the brain has some areas that run linked to the interpretation and creation of music, so people who develop these issues are musicians, composers, music critics, dancers.
VisualSpatial Intelligence: This intelligence is very interesting, because it is the one that allows us to observe the world and its objects from different perspectives, people who develop this intelligence, are able to devise mental images, drawings among others, so it highlights, chess players and professionals in the visual arts (painters, designers, sculptors and believe it or not cab drivers, because they have to devise maps in their minds, to know the routes of the city where they travel.
Kinetic-Body Intelligence: When you have body and motor skills to handle any tool, or express emotions, the level of development of this intelligence is put into practice, and it is that we naturally develop it without knowing it, mostly present in dancers, actors, athletes, and even surgeons and plastic artists, because of that, they have to put into practice in a rational way their physical skills.
Intrapersonal Intelligence: It is necessary to know ourselves, to respect ourselves but above all to accept ourselves, this type of intelligence allows us to form a good concept of ourselves, to set goals, skills, plans, and makes us be more rational, analytical but also to evaluate personal disadvantages, the people who best develop this interesting intelligence, are psychologists, teachers, among others.
Interpersonal Intelligence: Unlike the Intrapersonal that goes mostly with knowing ourselves, this intelligence allows us to understand others, help them solve problems, and be the solution to anything that happens, it helps us to manage much better human relationships, and respect everyone equally, no doubt this intelligence is present in administrators, teachers, therapists and others.
Naturalistic Intelligence: Of all the Intelligences, we consider this one of the most important, because it is the one that helps us to relate in a healthy and positive way with nature, according to Gardner, "Naturalistic intelligence allows us to detect, differentiate and categorize aspects related to the environment, such as animal and plant species or phenomena related to climate, geography or phenomena of nature". This is an essential intelligence in the life of human beings, and even more so in these difficult times for the environment.

The psychologist Howard Gardner only mentioned 8 multiple intelligences, but in spite of that, at present, several studies indicate that there may be more, because the brain is so broad, which houses many intelligences, so they continue to study, according to several articles reveal that there are 12 multiple intelligences, we in VirtualVariety decided only to capture the 8 that Gardner postulated.