Multiple Intelligences
Human beings all have a list of skills and devices that are used in our everyday lives so we can solve different kinds of problems that we deal with. People use multiple intelligences since the day they were born into this world. We have never thought about how we use them in our daily lives because they are used naturally. Gardner defines intelligence as "the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting". Using biological as well as cultural research, he formulated a list of seven intelligences. The seven intelligences include interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, logical intelligence, and mathematical intelligence. When I talk to my significant other I use Interpersonal Intelligence daily without even realizing it. Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand and distinguish the feelings and intentions of others. I live with my significant other so we have to get along with each other in order for our relationship to survive the hardships of being together. There are times when I am seeing the shadows casted upon our relationship so I never see the light, "The Form of Good", as Plato stated in The Allegory of the Cave, paragraph 45. I let hurtful actions and words that my significant other uses to make myself not see the light and stay in the darkness so I will not get hurt from the truth of how the relationship really is. Intrapersonal Intelligence is in our mind and in our souls from the day we are born. Intrapersonal intelligence is the ability to understand one's own feelings and motivations. Sometimes we have a hard time recognizing our self knowledge of our strengths and weaknesses. President Bush is someone who preys on our weaknesses by altering the light and wanting us to believe in him even if it is a lie Spatial Intelligence is the way we perceive and imagine. Spatial Intelligence gives one the