Howard Garner found out through extensive research that there are nine kinds of talents or intelligences 1. Verbal – Linguistic Intelligence
Have excellent in verbal skill and are
sensitive to the sounds, meanings, rhythm or words 2. Mathematical - Logical Intelligence
Think conceptually and abstractly with ease
and easily understand logical and numerical patterns 3. Musical Intelligence
Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm,
pitch, timbre and harmony 4. Visual - Spatial Intelligence
The capacity to think in images and
pictures, good in visualizing things and can easily recognize patterns 5. Bodily - Kinesthetic Intelligence
Ability to control one’s body movements
and to handle objects skilfully 6. Interpersonal Intelligence
Capacity to assess and respond
appropriately to the moods, motivations, and desires of those around them 7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
Ability to understand your emotional states,
values, and beliefs, and enjoy self- reflection 8. Naturalist Intelligence
Ability to recognize and categorize plants,
animals, and other living things in nature and strive for the preservation of our world 9. Existentialist Intelligence
The sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep
questions about human existence It is a feeling and an attitude in acknowledgement of a benefit that one has received or will receive. We demonstrate gratitude by being thankful or being appreciative of the things that make us feel grateful
Gratitude is a feeling that emerges within us but it is also
choice that we make. In fact, some people actually choose to be ungrateful and take for granted all the blessings that they have received. Grateful people, on the hand, freely choose to acknowledge the many blessings that they have received and appreciate even small blessings that come their way The term talent came from Latin word 9. Existentialist Intelligence Latina meaning “ inclination , leaning, will, and desire”. Hence, our talents The sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep actually those things or activities that we questions about human existence are very much inclined to do!