Linguistic Intelligence
- sensitivity to the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words
- sensitivity to the different functions of language
Favourite Activities: writing and reading, listening and speaking
Professions: poet, journalist
Musical Intelligence
- abilities to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch, and timber
- appreciation of the forms of musical expressiveness
Favourite Activities: play and listen to music
Professions: composer, instrumentalist
Logic-mathematical Intelligence
- sensitivity to, and capacity to discern, logical or numerical patterns
- ability to handle long chains of reasoning
Favourite Activities: putting things in order, solving of logical problems, programming a computer
Professions: mathematician, scientist
Spatial Intelligence
- capacity to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately
- capacity to perform transformations on one's initial
perceptions
Favourite Activities: drawing, taking things apart, playing of games
Professions: navigator, sculptor
Bodily-kinaesthetic Intelligence
- abilities to control one's body movements
- ability to handle objects skilfully
Favourite Activities: dancing, acting, doing crafts (e.g. carving, sewing)
Professions: dancer, athlete
Intrapersonal Intelligence
- access to one's own feelings and ability to discriminate among them and draw upon them to guide behaviour
- knowledge of one's own strengths, weaknesses, desires, and intelligences
Favourite Activities: dreaming, thinking about thinking (metacognition)
Profession: - (accurate, detailed self knowledge)
Interpersonal Intelligence
- capacity to discern and respond appropriately to the
moods, temperaments, motivations, and desires of other people
Favourite Activities: understanding and influencing other people
Professions: therapist, salesman
Naturalistic Intelligence
- ability to recognize and classify minerals, plants, and animals
Favourite Activities: observing and experiencing nature, gardening, cooking
Professions: biologist, zoologist