Gardner's theory proposes 8 types of intelligences: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Each intelligence involves distinct skills and abilities. Examples are given highlighting individuals with exceptional abilities in each type of intelligence such as musicians, athletes, scientists, authors, artists, activists, and marine biologists.

1. Gardner’s Multiple
Intelligences
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2. Gardner’s Theory of 8 Multiple
Intelligences
• Howard Gardner’s theory suggests that individual
possesses not one but various intelligences and each of
which is relatively distinct and independent of the other.

3. 8 Multiple Intelligences
• Musical
• Bodily Kinesthetic
• Logical Mathematical
• Linguistic
• Spatial
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalistic

4. Musical Intelligence
• Skills in tasks involving music.
Example:
• Conrad Tao (Born June 11, 1994)
• Found playing children's songs on piano at the age of 18
months. First public recital at the age of 4 and made his
concerto debut with the Utah Chamber Music Festival at age
8. Named a 2011 Presidential Scholar for the Arts by President
Obama in a White House ceremony, he is in demand as a
composer, violinist, and pianist. He’ll perform
Bach, Liszt, Stravinsky, Beethoven, and three of his own piano
pieces.

5. Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence
• Skills in using the body or various in the solution
of problems or in the construction of the
products or displays, exemplified by dancers,
athletes, actors, and surgeons.
• Michael Jordan (Feb 16, 1973) was a star player
for the NBA's Chicago Bulls for many years and
is often considered the greatest basketball
player in the league's history. He helped the
Chicago Bulls win six NBA championships from
1991-993 and 1996-1998. Jordan was named
rookie of the year in his first season and earned
three all-star game MVP awards, five regular
season MVP awards and six NBA Finals MVP
awards.

6. Logical-mathematical Intelligence
• Skills in problem-solving and scientific thinking.
Example:
• Akshay Venkatesh (born 29 August 1981)
• is an Australian mathematician. Won a bronze medal at
the International Physics Olympiad at age 11. Won a
Bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad
(IMO) at 12. Graduated university at age 15 with a double
major in mathematics/physics. Finished his PhD at 20 from
Princeton University. Associate Professor at age 23.

7. Linguistic Intelligence
• Skills involved in the production and use of language.
Example:
• Brianna and Brittany Winner
• These identical twins are multiple award-winning young American authors
who wrote the fictional series of novels entitled the Strand series. At the end
of fourth grade they used a speech to text software to complete an 80,000-
word novel and were recognized as child prodigies in 2010. They have won
multiple awards for the first book in the series titled The Strand Prophecy
including the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Adolescent Fiction. Published
their first novel at 12 and became America's youngest multiple award
winning authors.

8. Spatial Intelligence
• Skills involving spatial configurations, such as
those used by artists and architects. Example:
• Steven Spielberg is one of the Hollywood's best
known director and one of the wealthiest
filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless
big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his
name, as producer, director and writer. Known
on-set for being able to work and come up with
ideas very quickly.

9. Interpersonal Intelligence
• Skills in interacting with others, such as sensitivity to the moods,
temperaments, motivations, and intentions of others. Example:
• Molly Pitcher, born Mary Ludwig, was an American Revolutionary
war hero. Mary helped American troops fend off British troops, first
by bringing water to the revolutionaries during the battle (earning
her the nickname "Molly Pitcher"), then by manning a cannon after
her soldier husband succumbed to either the heat or a battle
wound. After the victory at Monmouth, George Washington himself
met with Mary Hays, commending her for her courage and
honoring her by bestowing upon her the honorary, non-
compensatory commission of Sergeant.

10. Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Knowledge of the internal aspects of oneself; access to one’s own
feelings and emotions. Example:
• Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American
author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person
to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne
Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of
language, allowing her to blossom as she learned to communicate. In
1912, she joined the Industrial Workers of the World and wrote In Why I
Became an IWW, Keller explained that her motivation for activism came
in part from her concern about blindness and other disabilities: “I was
appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For
the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human
control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial
conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And
the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to
a life of shame that ended in blindness.”

11. Naturalistic Intelligence
• Ability to identify and classify patterns in nature.
Example:
• Rachel an American marine biologist and a
science writer was born in 1907 in Pennsylvania.
She is known for her book "Silent Spring" in which
she elaborated on the long term effects of
synthetic pesticides. Carson initially started
working as a biologist with the U.S Bureau of
Fisheries and later on became a known figure
and researcher in that field.