Your Amazing Brain
a.k.a. How Smart are You?
Why are some people better at things
than others?
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Practice
Brain Injury
Learning Disability
Culture/Upbringing
Others?
Creative & Analytical Brain
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Your “creative” brain controls your creative,
dreamy side
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Your “analytical” brain controls your
reasoning and problem solving side
Analytic vs. Creative Brains
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Analytic Brain:
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Logic
Reason
Math
Reading
Language
Looks at things in parts
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Creative Brain
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Creativity
Imagery
Dreams
Emotions
Symbols
Looks at the whole
One or the other?
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Most people feel they are stronger in one or
the other….
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Which are you stronger at?
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What percent?
Multiple Intelligences
9-Smart and 3-Smart
9-Smart
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Psychologist Harold Gardner said there were
7 different kinds of intelligences
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2 more were added recently to make 9 ways
9 Intelligences
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Music Smart
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Body Smart
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You are often in motion and excel in sports
People Smart
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You think in sound and rhythm
You understand others well and make friends easily
Self Smart
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You understand yourself well and are comfortable with
yourself
9 Intelligences
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Picture Smart
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Word Smart
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You easily see connections between ideas
Nature Smart
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You think in words
Logic Smart
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You think in pictures
You relate to nature
Deep Smart
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You love deep, philosophical questions
Questions:
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What “smarts” do you have? Are you surprised?
Ask your friend to look at your list and see if they
are surprised…
Can you guess what type of intelligences your
teacher has? What about your parents?
Identify a time where your smarts have helped you.
Identify a time when your difficulty in a “smarts”
area challenged you.