Your 12 Intelligences

Howard Gardner, author of “Multiple Intelligences”,  postulated that humans have 7 intelligences, but later changed to 8. Cercone Learning begged to differ.  

The fact is the human brain has 12 cranial nerves therefore Cercone Learning believes humans have 12 intelligences.

Cercone Learning also looked at which intelligences operate in the Left Brain and the Right Brain.

Cercone Learning has grouped the 12 intelligences in 3 sets of 4 by their functions. They are grouped in the approximate order that a person uses them from birth on.  The first 6 intelligences operate naturally without aid.  Intelligences 4,5 and 6 are

critical for brain development.

Set I of your 12 Intelligences

1. 1. Observation -- Right Brain
   

2. 2. Imagination -- Right Brain
   

3. 3. Intuition -- Right Brain
   

Set II of your 12 Intelligences

1. 4. Visual/Spatial -- Right Brain
   

2. 5. Musical/Auditory -- Right Brain
   

3. 6. Body/Kinesthetic -- Left and Right Brain
   

Set III of your 12 Intelligences

1. 7. Creativity -- Left and Right Brain
   

2. 8. Linguistics -- Left Brain
   

3. 9. Interrelating/Connecting -- Left Brain
   

Set IVof your 12 Intelligences

1. 10. Logic -- Left Brain
   

2. 11. Math -- Left Brain
   

3. 12. Science and Order -- Left Brain
   

Set I Intelligence 1 – Observation

“I noticed that……”    Einstein used this intelligence most frequently

1. ✴It is full of curiosity and wonder
   

2. ✴It is one of the first intelligences that a child uses to learn.  
   

3. ✴It notices big ideas, small ones and the interconnection between.
   

4. ✴It marvels at the beauty of a tree leaf and how it grows.
   

5. ✴It observes patterns and strives to understand them. 
   

6. ✴It is also a key intelligence for the genius mind and critical thinking.
   

Set I Intelligence 2 – Imagination

“In 1895, 16 year old Einstein imagined what it would be like to ride alongside a light beam.”

Walter Isaacson

1. ✴It is the ability to conceive – to picture.
   

2. ✴It creates the pictures that are needed for long term memory.
   

3. ✴It creates a new product.
   

4. ✴It creates a way of dealing with relationship so that everyone wins. 
   

5. ✴It looks for the best possible solutions.
   

6. ✴It can see where one is caught in an old pattern and looks for ways to move out of old patterns that no longer serve.
   

7. ✴It allows us to create the world of our choice.
   

Set I Intelligence 3 – Intuition

1. ✴It has deeper connections with other brain function than are presently understood.
   

2. ✴It works closely with Imagination,  reaches into the deeper aspect of genius and comes up with greater understandings even understandings that were not taught.
   

3. ✴It silently guides us from that part of us that is not always consciously present.
   

4. ✴It is that “gut feeling that one should or should not do something. 
   

5. ✴It is an intelligence that has so much more that needs to be explored for it is one of the intelligence, until recently, that was quite closed.
   

Set II Intelligence 4 - Visual-Spatial

1. ✴It gives you the ability to see pictures and visualize. 
   

2. ✴It is opened up with color and many word pictures.   The look and feel of the learning environment either closes or opens this intelligence.  Pages, their outlines and spacings open this ability.
   

3. ✴It is the intelligence that needs to write or mind map the learning material.
   

4. ✴It needs to take some kind of notes or make a list. 
   

5. ✴It is the intelligence that needs to draw a picture in order to understand easier.
   

6. ✴It is artistic whether in art, creating notes that fit our style of learning or creating a unique daytimer that allows one to “see” time.
   

Set II Intelligence 5 – Music/Auditory

1. ✴This area of the brain is most fascinating for it includes almost all of the intelligences. 
   

2. ✴Music is a sport, an art, a science, mathematical, intuitive, creative, visual, spatial in sound, orderly, communicative and logical. 
   

3. ✴Certain kinds of music open the genius mind and others easily close it.
   

4. ✴Certain kinds of music open creativity and others can close it. 
   

5. ✴The auditory aspect of this intelligence is opened or closed by the human voice.
   

6. ✴The speed of the voice, the enunciation of the words and the rhyme cadence of the human voice can open this intelligence easily or through the improper use of the voice, the genius can be shut down in less than 5 seconds.
   

Set II Intelligence 6 - Body/Mechanical

1. ✴This is the “hands on” intelligence that learns from doing and feeling. 
   

2. ✴It needs to act out, write down, role-play. 
   

3. ✴It needs some movement.
   

4. ✴It loves to play games associated with learning.
   

5. ✴It is an intelligence that understand the order and nature of mechanical workings.
   

6. ✴It is an intelligence that needs to build physical creations.
   

7. ✴It is artistic, mathematical and scientific.
   

8. ✴It uses observation, intuition, imagination and logic.
   

9. ✴It needs to write – but when color is used in the writing process, other intelligences are also activated.
   

Set III Intelligence 7 - Creativity

1. ✴It is the ability to conceive an idea , a way of working with an idea, a way of inventing a way of teaching or solving a problem, a way of thinking and a way of communicating.
   

2. ✴It is a way of living our life.
   

3. ✴It looks at any problem from many different viewpoints.  Solution finding and logic are always present when creativity is open for logic loves to explore with creativity. 
   

4. ✴It finds ways of speaking, doing housework, driving. 
   

5. ✴It is in every aspect of life from how we dress, to our habits, to our thoughts and the way we write.  It is not just art and music.  Creativity is in how we choose to think, to act and find solutions where it felt like there were none.
   

Set III Intelligence 8 - Linguistics

1. ✴It communicates with ourselves and  others.  This is the verbal and non verbal part of the brain. 90% of communication is non-verbal.
   

2. ✴An open communication intelligence reads, hears and understands the non-verbal aspect of communication.  Thus a person who has this intelligence open works very effectively with others. 
   

3. ✴It includes the language skills, the formulation of ideas into words, the listening/hearing skills.
   

4. ✴It includes listening with the heart.  It connects the heart and the brain.
   

5. ✴It also has the ability to look within and listen to the inner child, the inner dream. 
   

6. ✴It has the ability to look at old patterns and change if they are no longer relevant.
   

Set III Intelligence 9 - Interrelating/Connecting

1. ✴This intelligence overlooks all the intelligences, logically computes the data received from each and comes up with new ideas and interesting comparisons. 
   

2. ✴It is discerning and perceives ways of working with ideas.
   

3. ✴It helps choice become wise.
   

4. ✴It puts concepts together while we may consciously be working on something else.
   

5. It brings new ideas out of 2 different concepts because it saw some connection that allowed the intelligences to look deeper.
   

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7. For instance,  ancient tribal clans often used the interrelating intelligence to approach their challenges.  They commonly faced their challenges through discussing the problem and danced the challenge. They dreamt of its success, created various solutions in their imagination and mentally saw the results of these solutions.  They listened to their intuition and then came back to the group to communicate their observations and feelings.  At that point they moved into a decision that worked for them. Present day man has moved away from this vital skill.
   

Set III Intelligence 10 - Logic

1. ✴It is the art and science of reasoning. 
   

2. ✴It looks for results and consults with the other intelligences.
   

3. ✴Logic does not mean: “Well, that’s the way it has always been done.”  True logic is always growing, always moving into greater understandings. When logic is denied, the brain shuts down. To many, logic is equated with the negative ego or the judgmental/critical voice, for instance “I am not good enough.” 
   

4. ✴Logic does not destroy our dreams but helps us to build.  Logic does not put us down but encourages us to move forward.   “I did not write a good article, how can I do it better?”Judgment hurts, logic does not.
   

Set III Intelligence 11 - Math

Our whole environment is entwined with math, even our living cells and the structure of life is based on math.  Math is a way of our daily life. Whenever math is used, a greater understanding of the subject comes forth.  Look at fractal pictures which is math in art and then look at nature and see the math in nature.

No human investigation can be called true science without passing through mathematical tests.

(Leonardo da Vinci, 'Treatise on Painting')

Set III Intelligence 12 - Science

Science intelligence teaches you how to categorize, organize, discover the principles and rules of nature, formulas and methodologies.  It looks at how things can be accomplished in a step by step fashion.  It organizes concepts for you to have a greater understanding of anything you attempt to do.  It organizes pictures for you can see.