JOBS:
Visual-Spatial
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3D modeling & simulation
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computer programmer
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computer games
Logical
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auditor
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detective
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computer technician
Musical
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disc jockey
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musician
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singer
VISUAL-SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
is the kind of intelligence you use when you are parallel parking your
car on the street. It comes into play, in unfamiliar territory, when
you are visualizing or imagining in your mind where you are, so you
don’t get lost.
This is also the intelligence you use when you are reading a novel,
or hearing someone tell a story for the first time. It creates a movie
of the characters and story action in your mind.
You often hear people say they were disappointed in the movie version
of the story, because it didn’t match the one they had created in their
imagination, as they read the book.
It’s the ability to form a mental 3D model of the spatial world and to manoeuver and operate using that model.
KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
is the kind of intelligence we use when we are making our bodies do
things. It is especially highly developed in athletes, dancers,
gymnasts, circus performers — people who use the body in precise and
exacting ways.
For example, those who win at sports, are able to quickly make their
bodies move, and do what they can imagine them doing in their minds.
Those who are strong on this kind of intelligence are highly paid for their skills as athletes and entertainers.
Notice that they are combining two kinds of intelligence here: Kinesthetic and Visual-Spatial.
LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
is the ability to use reason, logic and numbers. These thinkers are
good at seeing patterns and relationships and making connections between
pieces of information. They are critical and relentless questioners.
They easily grasp the intricacies of complex problems and are
attracted to computers and puzzles that draw on their reasoning
abilities.
They need things to make sense logically and can get quite annoyed
when things don’t make sense. They enjoy the challenge of systematically
and analytically working through a difficult problem to it’s logical
conclusion.
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