You Can OutSmart Your IQ! (and so can participants in your mentor training and coaching!)

THE RESEARCH IS IN: We’ve Been Lied To About Our Intelligence!

Most of us grew up being told (and believing!) that intelligence is fixed and static at birth. We’ve been told we were born with a certain amount of intelligence and are stuck with it.

Furthermore, through a series of tests, involving mostly paper and pencil tasks, we’ve been lead to believe one’s “intelligence quotient” (IQ) can be assessed. After performing the tasks on a given test, a person is assigned a number which, supposedly, is a valid indicator of his or her intellectual capabilities from that point on.

There’s a new view of intelligence calls into question the basic assumptions about our intelligence represented by the “IQ paradigm.” It’s called “Multiple Intelligences” or MI (a.k.a. The 8 Kinds of Smart).

The “MI paradigm” views intelligence as a biological, neurological, psychological, sensory, and cognitive phenomenon. It’s much more than what goes on between our ears! Our intelligence occurs throughout our entire brain, mind, body system and even beyond ourselves in our socio-cultural environment as well.

The “MI paradigm” asserts that any of the tests, which purport to measure one’s intelligence, by design are flawed, because they measure a very small range of our human intellectual capacities, namely our logical thinking abilities (per Western definitions of logic), various linguistic and math skills (which can be demonstrated in a paper and pencil manner), and fairly elementary spatial abilities such as choosing similar objects or shapes from a range of options.

Why have we chosen to define this narrow range of capabilities as “intelligence” but not our ability to express deep thoughts, emotions, and ideas through music, dance, art, drama, and interpersonal relationships? Why do we not call one’s inner knowledge about the self or the natural world around us intelligence?

The theory of multiple intelligences asks us to look at ourselves and other people in a very different way, NOT asking “How smart am I? ” or “How smart are they (my participants)?” MI leads us to ask “HOW am I smart?” or “HOW are they (our participants) smart?”–a very different question indeed!

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