“The Sum of You is Greater than All Your (Intelligence) Parts!”

Perhaps one of the most important and revolutionary aspects of the research on multiple intelligences is that intelligence can be taught, enhanced, and developed. This is vitally important in any mentor training and coaching you provide. The great news about The 8 Kinds of Smart is that we all have all eight and probably more than eight intelligences.

However, not all the intelligences are equally developed within us. Nonetheless, they are already part of our biology and our neurology as human creatures, so we can literally awaken, stimulate, and trigger all eight intelligences in our brain-mind-body system.

Once an intelligence is awakened, we can approach working with it much like we would approach any skill we have developed in our lives. Through consistent use and regular practice, we can strengthen, enhance, and develop almost any less developed area.

Think about what is involved in improving your cardiovascular system. You must get involved in some kind of aerobic activity. If you want to tone the muscles in your body, you would likely go to a health club and hire a personal trainer. He or she would get you started on a weight training program that is guaranteed to work if you follow the prescribed course of exercise. The same is true for The 8 Kinds of Smart.

THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE PROFILE INDICATOR

I’d like to invite you to participate in a process I’ve created for assessing your own and other’s “intelligence profiles”. Your intelligence profile provides you with a picture of The 8 Kinds of Smart as they are currently manifest in your life, based on your responses to a SmartSurvey™ of different aspects of your life.

After completing the SmartSurvey™ (a series of questions about how you learn, remember things, process information, things you like to do, and things you don’t like. Then you’ll be presented with a “Multiple Intelligence Profile Indicator”. The whole process is free and is available online. To learn more just fill out the form below and I’ll send you the information immediately.

It’s important to underscore that an intelligence profile is only an indicator, NOT the final and ultimate story of your intelligence as a human being, any more than a traditional IQ test is. But it’s a place to begin.

The profile will indicate which two intelligences seem to be more developed than the others. It will also indicate that some are emerging, and some are in various states of sleep or latency.

But the great news about The 8 Kinds of Smart is that any underdeveloped or sleeping intelligences can be awakened. They can be stimulated, triggered, and brought to the fore so you can work them!

Sign up below to take the multiple intelligence test and to receive your learning profile. You’ll also get information about how to use learning profiles in your mentor training.