Since the early 1960's, I have struggled with the issue of how we have acquired out various intelligences.  Or expressed in the form of a question, are we who we are due to our biological background (agreeing that inheritance plays a firm factor in our overall potential) or can we enhance our cognitive capabilities, cerebral capacities and talents on our own via deliberate practice?

While I believe that we are products of both mother nature and nurturing environments, we must remember that we are not fully slaves to our genes or prisoners to our background.  In short, I feel that success stems from a combination of best using those intelligences that our parents passed on to us and by developing the skills that we have polished over the years.

To help us in this dialogue, here are some links associated with the overall nature of human intelligences, including Howard Earl Gardner's (HEG) Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT).

1. Adult literacy & MIT
2. Adult MIT
3. AERA MI SIG
4. Bell Curve
5. Career Scenarios
6. Carlos & Reading & MIT
7. Cognitive Daily
8. Criteria for HEG's MIT
9. Critiques of HEG's MIT
10. (Original) Database of MIT Dissertation Citations and Abstracts
11. Exploring MIT
12. The g Intelligence Factor
13. History of Psychology
14. Human Intelligences Data Base 2008
15. Ilinoisloop.org/mi.html

16. Illusion of Culture-free testing

17. Intelligence

18. IQ testing  In theory, intelligence quotient (IQ) is a value that represents one's intelligence relative to a group.  IQ is a number that compares you to others in your age group.  The distribution of scores has a mean of 100, with a standard deviation of 15 points.  Most mainstream clinical psychologists will argue that an IQ score is a valid measure of real intelligence.  Quite the opposite, I believe that IQ scores only measure one's ability to perform IQ tests.  End of sentence, period and full stop!

19. Lesson Plans & MIT

20. Links to MIT sites

21. MIT for everyone

22. Intelligences of gr 8 students

23. Occupations & MIT

24. PhD pilot study (1994)

25. References about MIT

26. Social intelligences

27. Tapping into MIT

28. Technology & MIT

29. Theatre in motion & MIT

30. Thinking & Working Smarter not Harder

31. A Talk with HEG

32. Using your secret intelligences

33. Why some parents dislike MIT

34. Why has HEG's MIT had such little impact on vocational psychology? by Andrew Carson