7 kinds of smart Book

Utilizing Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences as a framework, Armstrong argues that there is biological evidence to support at least seven categories of intelligence, but that western society has over-focused on only two of these' mathematical skills and linguistic skills. Armstrong goes on to argue that, if all seven intelligences are considered, everyone has areas in which they are naturally gifted ("intelligent") and everyone has areas that are natural weaknesses:"One of the greatest contributions of the theory of natural intelligences is that it provides everyone with a chance to shine in something. In my role as a learning specialist I've talked with too many people who have gone though their entire lives thinking of themselves as losers because they weren't able to be the logical or verbal people that society expected them to be. This book provides these individuals with an opportunity to experience themselves as highly intelligent people in one or more of the other intelligences" p24.

The seven intelligences indentifed by Armstrong are "Linguistic Intelligence," "Logical-Mathematical Intelligence," "Spatial Intelligence," "Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence," "Musical Intelligence," "Interpersonal Intelligence," and "Intrapersonal Intelligence." This book provides a variety of suggestions and tools for assessing your relative strength and weakness in each of the categories and also provides suggestions for how to develop areas of weakness'or even further enhance strengths.

"You know much more than you think because you think in more ways than you know" pg 24.