Thursday, March 12, 2009

Learn HOW You (and other people) Learn!

In the mid-1980s a Harvard researcher named Howard Gardner published his now famous book entitled Frames of Mind. In it he documented his research on multiple intelligences, what I call The 8 Kinds of Smart. Basically Gardner discovered that each of us has eight different intelligences - eight ways we go about such things as knowing what we know in our lives, learning, remembering things, understanding, and processing information.

Not only did this research find that we all learn differently, it also discovered is that intelligence can be taught, enhanced, and developed. The great news about The 8 Kinds of Smart is that we all have all eight and probably more than eight intelligences.


However, not all the intelligences are equally developed within us. Nonetheless, they are already part of our biology and our neurology as human creatures, so we can literally awaken, stimulate, and trigger all eight intelligences in our brain-mind-body system.


Through consistent use and regular practice, we can strengthen, enhance, and develop almost any less developed area just any skill you have developed in your life.
The same is true for your intelligences!

THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE PROFILE INDICATOR

I'd like to invite you to participate in a process I've created for assessing your own and other's "intelligence profiles". Your intelligence profile provides you with a picture of
The 8 Kinds of Smart as they are currently manifest in your life, based on your responses to a SmartSurvey™ of different aspects of your life.

After completing the SmartSurvey™ you'll be presented with a "Multiple Intelligence Profile Indicator". The whole process is free and is available on my website. Click Here to learn more about the Multiple Intelligence Profile Indicator.

The profile will indicate which two intelligences seem to be more developed than the others. It will also indicate that some are emerging, and some are in various states of sleep or latency.

But the great news about
The 8 Kinds of Smart is that any underdeveloped or sleeping intelligences can be awakened. They can be stimulated, triggered, and brought to the fore so you can work them!

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