posted September 20, 2008 08:07 PM         

Howard Gardners 8 distinct intellectual abilities

1. Linguistic intelligence: Language skills such as those of writers and poets.

2. Logical mathimatical intelligence: The abstract thinking and problem solving shown by mathematicians and computer scientists

3. Musical intelligence: Based on an acute sensitivity to sound patterns.

4. Spatial intelligence: Most obvious in great artists who can perceive things accurately and transform what they see.

5. Bodily kinesthetic intelligence: The skillful use of the body to create crafts, perform, or fix things; dancers, athletes and surgeons.

6. Interpersonal intelligence: Social intelligence, social skills, exceptional sensitivity to other people's motivations and moods; salespeople and psychologists

7. Intrapersonal intelligence: Understanding of one's own feelings and inner life.

8. Naturalist intelligence: Expertise in the natural world of plants and animals.

Which do you identify with?

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posted September 21, 2008 05:12 PM         

The ability to assemble flat-pack furniture quickly and without swearing once.

posted September 23, 2008 01:46 PM         

It's starting to make me laugh. I can't help it.

http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/019163.html

According to my mother, all the education in the world useless unless you can make a decent cup of tea and mop a floor properly.