The 9 Intelligences

Intelligence
1. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence
Well-developed verbal skills and
sensitivity to the sounds,
meanings and rhythms of words
2. Mathematical-Logical
Intelligence Ability to think
conceptually and abstractly, and
capacity to discern logical or
numerical patterns
3. Musical Intelligence
Ability to produce and appreciate
rhythm, pitch and timber
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Skills and Career Preferences

Skills - Listening, speaking, writing,
teaching.
Careers - Poet, journalist, writer,
teacher, lawyer, politician, translator
Skills - Problem solving (logical &
math), performing experiments
Careers - Scientists, engineers,
accountants, mathematicians

Skills - Singing, playing

instruments, composing music
Careers - Musician, disc jockey,
singer, composer
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Skills - puzzle building, painting,
Capacity to think in images and
constructing, fixing, designing
pictures, to visualize accurately
objects
and abstractly
Careers - Sculptor, artist, inventor,
architect, mechanic, engineer
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligenc Skills - Dancing, sports, hands on
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experiments, acting
Ability to control one's body
Careers - Athlete, PE teacher,
movements and to handle objects dancer, actor, firefighter
skillfully
Interpersonal Intelligence
Skills - Seeing from other
Capacity to detect and respond
perspectives, empathy, counseling,
appropriately to the moods,
co-operating
motivations and desires of others Careers - Counselor, salesperson,
politician, business person, minister
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Skills - Recognize ones S/W,
Capacity to be self-aware and in
reflective, aware of inner feelings
tune with inner feelings, values,
Careers - Researchers, theorists,
beliefs and thinking processes
philosophers
Naturalist Intelligence
Skills - Recognize ones connection
Ability to recognize and
to nature, apply science theory to
categorize plants, animals and
life
other objects in nature
Careers Scientist, naturalist,
landscape architect
Existential Intelligence
Skills Reflective and deep
Sensitivity and capacity to tackle thinking, design abstract theories
deep questions about human
Careers Scientist, philosopher,
existence, such as the meaning of theologian

life, why do we die, and how did

we get here