Until a few months ago I didn't know there are types of Intelligence. I just knew either you are Intelligent or not. Simple! We were having our Koch Klub (cooking club) and when we were talking about the Blog I told a friend of mine that "I am not that Intelligent", needs a bit time to understand technology and then I said that I was anyways an average student in School. That's when she said Ity its not that you are not Intelligent but you have different kinds of Intelligent. Then she explained it to us that there are about 9 different kinds of Intelligence which includes Social
Spiritual
Emotional
Intellectual (which I think I am not on the top),
Linguistic
Musical
Body and movement....so how much we got.......5 OK....let me think !!! the rest is
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Natural (don't we all know that) I think. So there you go. We have about 9 different kinds of Intelligence. When I checked google for this, it showed some complicated non everyday life workds for these, But the above works for me. In today's world if someone is not "so called" "Intellectual" Intelligent then he/she or we all say....this person is an average. But hey !!! now I think no, I cannot judge the person just like that. May be he or she has not got one Intelligence but they could have something from the other 8 left. And trust me they mostly do because God has given all of us something or the other. Knowing this truth felt really good to me and I started seeing myself and also other people differently. Sometimes they say "Ignorance is a bliss but in this case it surely was not.
I think in all aspects of life we can start to incorporate all other kinds of Intelligence other than Intellectual Intelligence only, meaning feel what you want to eat, change your taste according to your needs, feel what you want to do and do it. It may be your washing day today but if the sun is shining got out to the lake, have a walk with your friend, have an ice-creme. Be flexible !!!! Enjoy life because we know we have this one for sure, we may have other ones too, but at the end of our life when we look back we want to feel contentment and not resentment.
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Well Ity, the fact that you are doing all this shows that you are a very intelligent lady. The particular definition which made you feel that you are not intelligent was crafted by companies and universities to manage their admission policies. Your friend is right. You are smart in so many different ways that I can't imagine not calling you intelligent. In US at least there is a whole genre of books that deals with this topic. Long time ago I came across this book called Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, which was a good introduction to this topic. I am sure it is available in German, if you prefer reading German now. But if you prefer English edition, I could send it to you from here..
ReplyDeleteSunil Bh., thank you for your mail. First of all I am so glad you checked out my blog. thanks for all the kind words, I guess you are right. But unfortunately it seems to me the world has become like that now-a-days, working in multi nationals and all. But trust me after reading your comment and having good feedback from my frineds I feel good about myself. I wouldnt have done any thing else. I am going to check this book out by Daniel Goleman, I am sure I will find it here. Thanks again. ity
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