The Essay by Isaac Asimov discusses the importance of intelligence and how everyone may have certain levels of intelligence depending on their occupation. This view of intelligence is shared in some way by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, as he to mentions that everyone has intelligence in their respective lines of work. In my eyes, intelligence has multiple aspects, similarly to how health has subsets (Mental, Physical, Emotional, etc). To be truly intelligent, one must have knowledge not only pertaining to their profession, but knowledge of how their mind operates, knowledge of human interaction. Balance of all aspects of intelligence is ideal. I would say my main strengths are adaptability and quick thinking. I find myself learning best when I’m actively partaking in that certain activity, whatever it may be.
After taking the multiple intelligence quiz, my results show that my top 3 intelligences are intrapersonal, musical, and logical. Of all of them, I most believe the intrapersonal intelligence is the most accurate. I say that because I would like to think I have a very strong understanding of my emotions and how to interact with others. I feel this actually aligns weel with my strength of adaptability, seeing as in order to interact with others, you need to be able to adapt to all kinds of people and how they carry conversation.
Hey Jonathan, I share your idea of intelligence because I believe that there are one than only one way to be intelligent. It has multiple aspects and can be shown in different ways.
I definitely agree that intelligence has multiple aspects. I had similar test results as you; I also had intrapersonal and musical intelligence (interpersonal was the third). I feel like intrapersonal was the most accurate for me as well.
Hey Jonathan, I agree with you on the fact that there are multiple intelligences and in order to be truly intelligent you need to have knowledge outside of your profession. It’s also cool how you were able to compare it to the different subsets of health.