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5 Essential Steps to a Successful 2010
Follow these 5 steps and get the results you want this year.
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26th July 2010
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you actually do. Attitude determines how well you do it... "
~ Raymond Chandler
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How are you intelligent?
Looking at 'smart' in a whole different way...
“I always do well, but I still worry I'm not as smart as my peers, in management meetings they zing ideas around so quickly my head spins." Ever wondered how smart you are?
Traditionally intelligence has been understood as a single measure of ability that is largely immutable from birth. In this conventional view, smart people have greater abilities and resources they can apply to any situation. The smarter you are, as measured on an IQ test, the better you can handle anything in your path. Much research supported this; showing that people with high IQs did better in school, regardless of the subject. Over time this view has taken hold and shaped our popular understanding of intelligence.
However, since most schooling draws on the same narrow range of performance that IQ tests measure, that correlation means little in understanding 'smart' in everyday life and work. Advances in neuropsychology, evolutionary biology, and child development show us the 'one-horse' view is tragically flawed. Flawed, because it can't account for performance outside of school, across the full range of human activity - intelligence as a chef, as an author, as an athlete, as a mother. The traditional view of intelligence is ill-fated, because we dampen human potential as long as we believe there is one linear scale of intelligence.
To find a better way to express human potential, Harvard education professor Howard Gardner spent years studying intelligence across disciplines and across cultures. He synthesized what he learned in his model of Multiple Intelligences (MI), and identified eight distinct intelligences:
- Bodily-Kinaesthetic – Using your body with comfort and skill.
- Interpersonal - Understanding and connecting with others.
- Intrapersonal - Understanding yourself and managing your thoughts and emotions.
- Logical-Mathematical – reasoning using math or logic.
- Musical-Rhythmic – Making music or making sense of tone and rhythm.
- Naturalist - Understanding processes in your environment.
- Verbal-Linguistic – Reading, writing, speaking and listening.
- Visual-Spatial - Conceiving and mentally manipulating images.
(Source: Howard Gardner, descriptions by Dario Nardi and Pam Fox Rolin)
This work changes how we can think about intelligence, from "how smart you are" to "how you are smart." In this view, 'smart' means using the best of yourself to succeed in your environment.
The way you succeed may be very different than the way someone else succeeds at the same task. Intelligences are typically used in combination, with distinctive combinations enabling different people to achieve similar results. For example, a top athlete will need highly developed Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence; beyond this, some athletes may be powered by the inner drive of Intrapersonal Intelligence, others by the pacing of Musical-Rhythmic Intelligence (even in non-musical sports), still others by the acumen of Logical Mathematical Intelligence.
Take a few minutes to read through the different intelligences listed and identify how you are smart. Then begin to look at those around you with new eyes and try to identify how they are smart. Keep a note of your ‘strengths’, where you are smart, and begin to draw on these as you work toward a more successful and fulfilling personal and professional life.
“We dampen human potential as long as we believe there is one linear scale of intelligence…”
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We invite you to schedule a free no obligation transform your life exploratory call with one of our life coaches to discuss the suitability of our programmes for your needs and find out how we can help you get from where you are now, to where you have want to be.
 Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there...
(Will Rogers)
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| what clients say |
"Since I started working with Kyle I now clearly see my potential and
my aims are immensely higher. Within 6 months I had begun to completely
transform my life. I had a new job which came with a 10% pay increase
and a further promotion already in the pipeline. I now have much better
career prospects, better relationships with the people I work with and
more energy and enthusiasm for the future."
(B Rayman, Merrill Lynch)
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