Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences

1. Musical

   • Involves the capacity to carry a tune, remember musical melodies, have a good sense of rhythm, or simply enjoy music.
   • Professions
     • Disc jockeys, sound engineers, piano tuners, electronics salespeople, and music therapists.

2. Interpersonal

   • Involves the ability to understand and work with other people and feel empathy for another person.
   • Includes the ability to "read people", the capacity to make friends, and the skill that some people have to walk into a room and immediately begin making key business or personal contacts.

3. Intrapersonal

   • It is essentially the intelligence of self-understanding, of knowing who you are. It's the intelligence of knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at.
   • Professions
     • Counselors, therapists, and others who work with personal emotions and motivations use this intelligence to help others develop a better sense of who they are.

4. Naturalist

   • Involves the ability to identify the natural forms around us: birds, flowers, trees, animals and other fauna and flora.
   • It also includes sensitivity to other natural forms, such as cloud formations and geological features of the earth.
   • Professions
     • Biologist, forest ranger, veterinarian and horticulturist.

5. Every person has all eight intelligences and uses them in different combinations during the course of daily life.