Usapang Bayan Lesson September 26, 2025
In celebration of World Teachers' Day October 5, 2025
12 Types of Multiple Intelligence:
A Self Evaluation
(Updated article: Ecology: Reflection of the Good Life - AVR September 2025)
Dr Abe V Rotor
“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.” - Howard Gardner
(Pioneer of the Theory of Multiple Intelligence)
There are people who live happy and full, while others do not. This leads us to look into the role of human faculties. When we talk of human faculties we refer to holistic intelligence. It is beyond IQ. It dwarfs the common concept of rationality, and means of measuring intelligence using conventional criteria.
Ms Melly C Tenorio, host, and Dr Abe V Rotor, Guest
All of us are endowed with a wide range of intelligence which is divided into 12 realms. Evaluate yourself based on each of the 12 types of intelligence, with the Likert scale of 1 to 5 (1 very poor, 2 poor, 3 fair, 4 good, 5 very good)
1. Linguistic Intelligence
(Word Smart): The ability to use language effectively, including reading, writing, and speaking.
2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
(Number/Reasoning Smart): The ability to think abstractly, discern logical or numerical patterns, and solve problems.
3. Musical Intelligence
(Music Smart): The ability to recognize and compose music, with sensitivity to rhythm, melody, and sound patterns.
4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
(Body Smart): The ability to use one's body to express ideas, solve problems, and create products, often seen in athletes or dancers.
5. Spatial Intelligence
(Picture Smart): The ability to think in three dimensions and understand spatial relationships, common in artists and engineers.
6. Interpersonal Intelligence
(People Smart): The ability to understand and interact effectively with others, characterized by empathy and good communication skills.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
(Self Smart): The ability to understand one's own feelings, strengths, and weaknesses to guide one's actions.
8. Naturalist Intelligence
(Nature Smart): The ability to recognize, categorize, and understand patterns and features in nature.
9. Existential Intelligence
(Life Smart): The capacity to ponder deep questions about existence, life, and death.
(Word Smart): The ability to use language effectively, including reading, writing, and speaking.
2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
(Number/Reasoning Smart): The ability to think abstractly, discern logical or numerical patterns, and solve problems.
3. Musical Intelligence
(Music Smart): The ability to recognize and compose music, with sensitivity to rhythm, melody, and sound patterns.
4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
(Body Smart): The ability to use one's body to express ideas, solve problems, and create products, often seen in athletes or dancers.
5. Spatial Intelligence
(Picture Smart): The ability to think in three dimensions and understand spatial relationships, common in artists and engineers.
6. Interpersonal Intelligence
(People Smart): The ability to understand and interact effectively with others, characterized by empathy and good communication skills.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
(Self Smart): The ability to understand one's own feelings, strengths, and weaknesses to guide one's actions.
8. Naturalist Intelligence
(Nature Smart): The ability to recognize, categorize, and understand patterns and features in nature.
9. Existential Intelligence
(Life Smart): The capacity to ponder deep questions about existence, life, and death.
10. Collaborative or Teaching Intelligence: The ability to focus on intelligent methods and tools to impart knowledge effectively.
(Smart Teaching)
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Other types of intelligence have been included in the list. Originally, Howard Gardner, pioneer of the theory of multiple intelligence, proposed seven, to which he later added naturalistic as the eighth realm. Existential intelligence and collaborative or teaching intelligence soon followed. Two more realms were added by other psychologists. These are: AI Overview
12. Emotional Intelligence: The capacity to recognize and manage emotions in oneself and others.
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These realms reside in both left and right hemispheres of our brain, with the left doing more of the reasoning and the right of creativity. How we live a happy and fulfilled life largely rests on how balance we use our brain, making use of these eight God-given faculties. It is also with this premise that we find peace with ourselves and with our environment and ultimately with God. Thus it is not only how much we are endowed with this gift, but more importantly, on how we make use of it fully and in the right way, and in sharing with our fellowmen, consequently in making our world a better place to live in.
Analyze your top three. Are you not proud of them? Look at the other realms. You may not have tapped them well. Do you realize that there is a big room of improvement, and that there are those who discover their potential assets in later years?
Analyze your top three. Are you not proud of them? Look at the other realms. You may not have tapped them well. Do you realize that there is a big room of improvement, and that there are those who discover their potential assets in later years?
Lastly, let me emphasize another component of peace, that of sharing. I can not find a shorter way to explain it more clearly than to present this excerpt from “How to Live With Life,” published by Reader’s Digest. To wit:
“Every human being on this earth faces a constant problem: how to make the most of life. There is no simple solution; the art of living is the most difficult of all the arts. But fortunately for all of us, experience can be shared. Insights can be learned. Wisdom can be taught. Experiences, insights and wisdom of men and women – from teachers to clergymen, housewives to scientists, ordinary citizens to statesmen - who have lived deeply, thought profoundly and cared enormously about sharing with others what they learned have found some fragment of truth that cushions the harsh impact of reality or brightens the marvelous tapestry of living. From them we find some answers to the most fundamental of all questions: how to live with life.”
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“Every human being on this earth faces a constant problem: how to make the most of life. There is no simple solution; the art of living is the most difficult of all the arts. But fortunately for all of us, experience can be shared. Insights can be learned. Wisdom can be taught. Experiences, insights and wisdom of men and women – from teachers to clergymen, housewives to scientists, ordinary citizens to statesmen - who have lived deeply, thought profoundly and cared enormously about sharing with others what they learned have found some fragment of truth that cushions the harsh impact of reality or brightens the marvelous tapestry of living. From them we find some answers to the most fundamental of all questions: how to live with life.”
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Intelligence is also rated individually according to three aspects - IQ. EQ and SQ. Evaluate yourself, accordingly.
May I add CQ (Community Quotient) "What I relate." Use the same Likert Scale of 1 to 5. Make your own personal assessment.
"Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn." — Francesca Zappia.
Final Reflections
Let us
Let us
- Reflect on your strengths and weakness
- Reflect on your idols in each of the 10 realms of intelligence
- Reflect on re-creating Nature with the image of the lost Eden
- Reflect on your scores yesterday and today.
- Reflect on the usefulness of this evaluation to your future, and your childrens'.
- Reflect on bringing a dead tree back to life.
- Reflect that everything in this world is interconnected
- Reflect on early bloomers, late bloomers, prodigy.
- Reflect on the lost lamb, the prodigal son.
- Reflect on lost opportunities you may be able to compensate.
- Reflect on your native values and culture.
- Reflect on Future Shock of Toffler we are now experiencing
- Reflect on Orwell's Big Brother concept of powerful nations
- Reflect on the new concept of heroes, hope of a tired Planet Earth
- Reflect on our lives affected by the faceless side of science and technology
- Reflect on current issues in troubled zones like Gaza and Ukraine
- Reflect on long life but one lived with a noble cause
- Reflect on that sailboat riding on the wave and wind towards a destination.
- Reflect on your talents as a gift from the Creator.
- Reflect on the legacy you may leave behind.
- Add on to this list, referring to yourself
“Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.” ― Howard Gardner
ASSIGNMENT: List down your idols under each realm, and state the reason. They must be real, living or dead, foreign or local, historical or contemporary.
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