Exploring your Intelligence - Part 1

Introduction
Having a high traditional IQ, based on measures of your verbal and numerical skills, does not automatically equal personal or professional success. Recently, there has been a growing acknowledgement of the presence of other skills and how important they are in life. Among others, abilities to communicate with others, to preserve, to plan and balance one's life, and so on represent good examples of other skills. The optimum exploration of these other intelligences go a long way in defining human achievements and success.

The history of the development of our knowledge about intelligence is fascinating. The first experiments in intelligence testing by 'scientific means' started only at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the early experiments like measuring knee-jerk response time to see whether the faster your reactions were, meant the smarter you were, or relating height to intelligence, and measuring bumps on the scalp to see if any of them were smart bumps, can all be considered a little eccentric

However, a French Psychologist, Alfred Binet, did eventually come up with the first, genuinely scientific method for objectively measuring intelligence. Binet's IQ tests were accepted without question for over 60 years, but by the 1970's, ideas about intelligence were beginning to change. Hence, there was an awareness that there are a number of different kinds of intelligence;and that each different intelligence acted in harmony with each of the others when they were properly developed.

By implication, a truly intelligent person is not one who can just simply spout out words and numbers; it is someone who can react wisely to all the opportunities, stimulations and problems emerging from his environment. Real intelligence means engaging your brain with every aspect of life. in other words, you play sports with your brain, you relate to others brain-to-brain, you make love with your brain. In short, all activities in life requires the use of brain, and the right application of brain to life's demand and challenges invariably reflects the whole essence of INTELLIGENCE.