8 Ways to be Clever

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Howard Gardner's 'clever' list

These are the eight intelligences Howard Gardner identified. Three other types are still being researched: spiritual, existential and moral intelligence

• Linguistic intelligence: sensitivity to spoken and written language, ability to learn languages, capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals.

• Logical-mathematical intelligence: capacity to analyse problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, investigate issues scientifically.

• Musical intelligence: skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns, capacity to recognise and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms.

• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems, ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.

• Spatial intelligence: potential to recognise and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas.

• Interpersonal intelligence: capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people, allows people to work effectively with others.

• Intrapersonal intelligence: capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations, involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives.

• Naturalist intelligence: capacity to recognise, categorise and draw upon certain features of the environment involving nature, flora and fauna.

The Clever Eight

8 Ways to be Clever