Intrapersonal Intelligence

1. IntrapersonalIntelligence Howard Gardner Intelligence

2. Gardner’s Definition: • Intrapersonal intelligence, (self smart) refers to having an understanding of yourself, of knowing who you are, what you can do, what you want to do, how you react to things, which things to avoid, and which things to gravitate toward. We are drawn to people who have a good understanding of themselves because those people tend not to screw up. They tend to know what they can do. They tend to know what they can’t do. And they tend to know where to go if they need help.

3. An Intrapersonally intelligent person . . . • … the access to one’s own feeling life—one’s range of affects or emotions: the capacity instantly to effect discriminations among these feelings, and, eventually, to label them, to enmesh them in symbolic codes, to draw upon them as a means of understanding and guiding one’s behavior.

4. Career Possibilities • Poet • Autobiographer • Writer • Artist • Counselor • Psychologist • Spiritualist • Philosopher • Diarist

5. Teacher Psychiatrist Politician Nurse Physician Motivational Speaker More careers . . .

6. Neil Armstrong, 1930--

7. Martin Luther, 1483--1546

8. Helen Keller, 1880--1968

9. Plato, 427—347 BC

10. Christopher Columbus, 1451--1506

11. Sigmund Freud, 1856--1939

12. Charles Lindbergh, 1902--1974

13. Karl Marx, 1818--1883

14. Joan of Arc, 1412--1431

15. Aristotle, 384—322 BC

16. Clara Barton, 1821--1912

17. Cleopatra, 69—30 BC

18. Leif Eriksson, 960--??

19. Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919--

20. John Bowlby, 1907--1990

21. Intrapersonal and Interpersonal • Interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence are similar in thought processes and analytical thinking. Therefore, people shown for either intelligence could just as easily be considered for the other intelligence.