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Can you confidently tell who is intelligent and who isn’t? Do you think dogs and parrots are intelligent? If yes, how? Ants are not good at math but they sure are great engineers! We all have a combination of various types of intelligence, if not all. Let us have a look at them. Verbal IntelligenceSuch people love words. They love reading, writing and making speeches. They like to argue, debate and discuss things. They havegood vocabulary and they compose poetries, write essays, participate in spellathons. They make great writers, poets, scriptwriters,lyricists and orators. Logical IntelligenceSuch people love numbers. They like solving math problems and analysing numbers and data values. They make good computer programmers and strategy game players such as Chess and Go. They believe in deriving the conclusions from the given facts. Spatial IntelligenceSuch people love visuals. They perceive and think about things in graphics. They have strong visualisation power. They are creative indesigning things. They are good at reading maps, drawing pictures and depicting concepts in graphical forms such as charts and diagrams. They make good graphics designers, animators and film makers. Kinaesthetic IntelligenceThese people love activity, movement and touch. They are dynamic in spirit. They like to do the things and experience first-hand. They would like to visit the place instead of learning about it in the books. They are outgoing and like to meet people. They make good sportspersons, soldiers, dancers, stage performers, mountaineers, travellers, builders, engineers, sculptors, carpenters and makers. Musical IntelligenceThey are feelers and thinkers. They like to perceive through listening. They look for harmony and balance in everything. They have a special knack to understand music and master it. They make good composers and singers, meditators, nature-healers and counsellors since they are good listeners. Interpersonal IntelligenceThese people love to meet other people, connect with them, develop contacts and have a good social circle. They possess strong communication skills irrespective of language. They have many friends and they are popular among the masses. Such people make businessmen, sales persons, counsellors, lawyers, public figures, political leaders and influencers. Intrapersonal IntelligenceThese people are often labelled as introverts or shy. They feel, think and ponder. They do not haste. They take their time to reach at conclusions. They are deeply aware of their needs and wants. They love to do things alone and stay away from the crowd. They are reluctant in sharing their ideas openly with others. Such people make great thinkers, spiritual personalities and writers, painters, seekers and mentors. Naturalistic IntelligenceThese people are empathetic, feelers and kind in nature. People find them sweet and forgiving. Such people are closely interested in nature and its phenomena. They have a special knack to identify characteristics of living beings, plants and other natural elements such as rocks, soil etc.. They are highly sensitive towards the threats to the nature. They are concerned about the ill practices that destroy natural bodies such as water, forests, animals and natural beauty. They make farmers, social workers, philanthropists, nature activists, geologists, environmental scientists, green fighters, marine or wildlife researchers and forest officers.

We have learnt that computers cannot learn. Computers cannot have the kind of memory that remembers! Computers can store data but they do not have their own intelligence to use it. To use that data, they need instructions from humans. Computers cannot decide and handle a situation on their own. Whatever we humans learn, first goes in our short-term memory just like primary memory of the computer. By constant practice and repeating, this learning shifts from short-term memory to our long-term memory. In long- term memory, the learning remains for pretty long time, even for lifelong. For example, basic Math, knowledge of other subjects, things we use, people around us, sports and games we play, the books we read, the movies we watch and the songs and jokes we listen to. We remember all this because with constant exposure and practice, we retain it in our long-term memory. Sometimes, certain unfortunate events like accidents and shocks occur in many people’s lives. Their experience directly embeds in our long-term memory deep for almost lifelong. For example, the electric shock or touch of a hot object. Remember? That first shock made us learn that hot objects need to be handled carefully. So, shocking experiences – good or bad – influence the depths of our brain without going through short-term memory and stay there permanently. Besides practice and exposure, there is interest. Our interest determines how much we shall learn and remember about anything. That is why we all have favourite subjects and favourite things we like to do. Interest determines our likes and dislikes for learning about the things in the world. It is the learning that has brought us from the stone age to the modern information age. And, today, we have modern technology, sophisticated machines, advanced software and several individuals of great intellect. Today, we want our machines, our computers to learn and exhibit intelligence – Artificial Intelligence! Brain is far superior than a computer. Computers are faster but they are not as smart as the brain is. Let us try to decode the term intelligence. Many a times we hear that such and such person is very intelligent. Scientists are intelligent. Astronauts are intelligent. Dog and horse are most intelligent animals. Parrot and Cockatoos are among most intelligent birds. Ants, Bees and Termites are intelligent insects. You must have noticed that while you are good at one thing, your friends are good in other things. One likes mathematics and the other likes to compose poetries. One of your friends is a good dancer while another has a nice voice. Some other people play musical instruments and some are very good at making friends. You agree? People possess multiple skills, talents and abilities. Can you name five of your friends who are good at different things? The key facts about intelligence are:  Intelligence comes from learning.  Intelligence is used to draw conclusions and solve problems.  To solve different types of problems, different types of intelligence are needed.