Intrapersonal Intelligence

Howard GardnerIntelligence

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.

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.

Career Possibilities

• Poet • Autobiographer• Writer• Artist• Counselor• Psychologist• Spiritualist• Philosopher• Diarist

More careers . . .

• Teacher• Psychiatrist• Politician• Nurse• Physician• Motivational Speaker

Neil Armstrong, 1930--

Martin Luther, 1483--1546

Helen Keller, 1880--1968

Plato, 427—347 BC

Christopher Columbus, 1451--1506

Sigmund Freud, 1856--1939

Charles Lindbergh, 1902--1974

Karl Marx, 1818--1883

Joan of Arc, 1412--1431

Aristotle, 384—322 BC

Clara Barton, 1821--1912

Cleopatra, 69—30 BC

Leif Eriksson, 960--??

Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919--

John Bowlby, 1907--1990

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.