Human Intelligence Essay

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What makes different people unique? It is their intelligences. Intelligences make different people unique because they have their own abilities, skills, and learning styles in approaching specific tasks. In the article, “Human Intelligence Isn’t What We Think It Is,” Howard Gardner argues that there are seven forms of intelligences; however since different people have different abilities in which different individuals approach specific tasks, they will not have all those intelligences. Therefore, people cannot judge on other people when they do not have those intelligences. Personally, I believe that I have logical-mathematical, spatial-visual, and intrapersonal intelligences. First of all, people who have logical-mathematical intelligence …show more content…

In the excerpt from the textbook Your College Experience, “Learning Styles,” Steven Blume describes visual intelligence is when a person loves to take notes in an outline form and rewriting the notes many times will help that person learn the material better. I believe that I have spatial-visual intelligence. In a visual-spatial intelligence, I love to solve puzzles. In my experience, since I was 8 years old until 16 years old, I had solved 1,500 puzzle pieces in a day. I really love solving puzzles, and it makes me not to feel stressful about school. It makes me feel relaxed and cheerful. Another example is I used to love to draw and color pictures of nature or cartoons. In my experience, my elementary school used to have a mandatory drawing class in every grades, and they made the students to draw anything based on the topic the teacher gave. This teacher’s idea is essential for students in order to make the students’ brain full of imaginary things and improve their creativity skills. In the article, “Human Intelligence Isn’t What We Think It Is,” Howard Gardner points out that if someone has spatial intelligence, he or she might become an architecture, engineer, sculpture, or painter. Another example is I enjoy watching movies and dramas rather than reading a book itself. Based on my experience, whenever there is an assignment …show more content…

Intrapersonal intelligence is the same as an introvert personality because they both love to work independently, and dislike crowds. In the excerpt from the textbook Your College Experience, “Learning Styles,” Steven Blume describes that a person with introverted personality tends to stay alone and make decisions independently. In addition, they also dislike being interrupted while working on something. I believe that I have intrapersonal intelligence and an introverted person. In intrapersonal intelligence and an introvert, I tend to work by myself rather than working in group because I feel secure whenever I am by myself. I also do not like being distracted whenever I am working on something, and I think that it is impolite to bother someone while working on something. Based on my experience, most teachers knew me as the quiet one because I rarely talk to anyone in class and always stay alone by myself. Even though I know that working in groups can make us finish the work faster, I think that it is better to work alone because I can also learn something. When I was 8 years old, I learned everything by myself without anyone helping me because I love to work independently and use my knowledge to learn something. When I was a kid, my parents used to teach me how to learn something independently without the help of my

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