Just as being a math whiz gives you the ability to understand the world, so does being “people smart” give you the same ability, just from a different perspective.
What other scientists thought were just soft-skills, such as interpersonal skills, Gardener realized were types of intelligence. Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart).In 1983 an American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener described 9 types of intelligence : If you are not good at math or language, you might still be gifted at other things but it was not called “intelligence”. That is what school beat into us by putting certain types of intelligence on a pedestal and ignoring other types.
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