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• Ability to reason, plan, solve problems, and comprehend ideas to deal with unexpected problems,
uncertainties.
• Ability to learn and adapt by upgrading your internal system so that you are able to respond to queries based
on experience and knowledge.
According to researchers, intelligence is the 'ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge
to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.'
Types of Intelligence
Based on the skills, the intelligence is divided into different types:
• Intrapersonal Intelligence: It's the ability to understand yourself, what are your feelings and what you want—
your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, and your motivation. For example, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother
Teresa had the capacity to know themselves.
• Spatial Intelligence: It is the ability to create, visualize, retain and retrieve well-constructed images. It is
an ability which designers, architects, engineers possess. It's the ability to visualize the world in 3D. For
example, Leonardo Da Vinci and I.M. Pei are some famous people with high visual intelligence.
• Naturalist Intelligence: It involves how sensitive an individual is towards nature. It's the ability to
understand living things and care for nature. People with this type of intelligence are gardeners, veterinary
doctors, zookeepers, etc. Charles Darwin, Steve Erwin, John Muir are some notable naturalist intelligent
personalities.
• Musical Intelligence: It is the skill of composing, performing and appreciating musical patterns. They have an
ability to recognize tone, rhythm and timbre. They remember things by turning them into lyrics or rhymes. Few
examples are singers, music composers, instrument players.
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: It's the ability to quantify things, analyzing problems logically, making
hypotheses and solving them. They think in terms of cause and effect. For example, Pascal, Newton was born
logical mathematical people.
• Existential Intelligence: It involves thinking philosophically and tackling the questions as to why we live and
die. They have the ability to use intuition, thought to understand the people and the world around them. They
are the philosophers, yoga or meditation instructors of the society. For example, Gautam Buddha had this ability
to understand life and death.
• Interpersonal Intelligence: It’s the ability to sense other people’s feelings and motives. It's how you relate to
others and manage relationships. Some people are very friendly while others are introverts. It is the ability to
understand and interact with the people around you. They are good psychologists, consultants, sales-person,
and politicians of the society. For example, Ronald Reagan a famous politician, Oprah Winfrey a famous American
talk show uses their skills to interact effectively with the people.
• Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence: It's the ability of a person to coordinate your mind with your body. It's the skill
to use motor skills and the body to solve problems or create something, like dancers, players.
• Linguistic Intelligence: It's an ability to understand, speak and write. It includes finding the right
words to express through speech or written words. They are the people with debating skills, poets,
and narrators. For example, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie are famous people who have high
linguistic intelligence.
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