How Smart Are You ? (Powerful knowledge that can change your life !).
1. The past 20 years have seen thousands of research and development on the brain and its development. We have more knowledge about about what happens in this wonderful organ in the last two decades than all the human knowledge put together before that. Much of the debates among researchers since 1920's centres around the definition of intelligence itself. Some school of thoughts emphasised on thinking ability (abstractions) while others on learning (ability to respond to questions). The more modern recent thoughts however agreed on the its ability to adapt. Psychologists agree that it is the ability to adapt to the environment that differentiate those who are successful from the rest. The contexts could be at home or at school, workplace etc. Knowing your areas of strength and weaknesses can mean a whole lot in advancing your career at work or academic excellence if you are a student. Howard Gardner proposed that we have multiple intelligences instead of having just one typ...