An American professor of psychology, Howard Gardner has identified at least seven forms of human intelligence. Social intelligence is 1 of these seven. Social intelligence has two components. 1 is the capacity to access one’s own emotional life or to ‘look into the inner self’. This involves the capability to recognize and to control one’s own behavior and actions. For example, this happens when we feel tension or anxiety and the capability or self-awareness to not let these feelings interfere with the top quality of a choice. Psychotherapists have a ideal understanding of these feelings and have deep insight into them. Philosophers and authors also have the capacity to verbalise their feelings in an exact and self-crucial way.
Profitable politicians and religious leaders have horned this form of Emotional Quotient, or EQ extremely nicely. Excellent teachers and gifted parents with this capacity can put themselves into another person’s position and function nicely with that person. They can do this really properly because they are sensitive to the mood fluctuations, temperaments, motives and aims of people about them, and are able to measure them against their own emotions. A person who has extremely excellent social intelligence is able to consequently merge the two facets, that is, to ‘look to the outside’, combined with the ability to ‘look into the inner self’.
Together with the two facets of social intelligence, Howard Gardner has identified a range of other talents. The initial of these is language, which is a universal capacity of humans transcending all cultures, despite the differences. Poets, scriptwriters, editors and public speakers generally have a high degree of linguistic intelligence. The second is, logical-mathematical intelligence that is shared by all individuals. The third selection of intelligence is spatial orientation. This capacity transcends time. It was just as essential when early men hunted animals or crossed oceans to discover new land, as it is now when we want to drive safely on roads or to fly jets. This talent is also important in some professions such as sculpture, architecture. The fourth range of intelligence is physical-kinaesthetic intelligence, which enables us to keep in mind movements throughout our lives. Anyone who has learnt to play an instrument or ride a bicycle will never ever shed this capability. Lastly, there is musical intelligence. Everyone has an innate ability to appreciate music and rhythm and everybody is a prospective musician. We can readily convert tones, harmonies and rhythms into music. Musical intelligence comprises the set of tools we use to do this.
Other intelligence include the ability to use all our other abilities and perception to memorise and make sense of the abstract, for example numbers and mathematical formulas. Our brains have a natural ability to think in photos and this intelligence has in the past allowed early men to communicate. Examples can be discovered in cave drawings by primitive men, modern day form of Chinese characters originating from images of animals or other forms of nature, and hieroglyphics utilized by the ancient Egyptians. In modern times, the ability to feel in pictures or make mental movies in our mind has helped a lot of to obtain extraordinary feats of memory as nicely as accelerated learning.
