Human Intelligence is an enigma – the more we study it the less we understand it.
It is commonly perceived that IQ tests provide the best measure of Intelligence. But these tests are skewed towards folks that are naturally good at math and logic. What about the brilliant musician who is not good with numbers?
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner postulated that people are a lot more complex and in his iconic book, The Frames of Mind, he proposed that there are 8 different types of intelligences; each one of us has a combination of these 8 types creating a unique intelligence profile for every individual.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/frames-of-mind-the-theory-of-multiple-intelligences
Let’s dig in a bit deeper and look at these 8 types of intelligence.