“How intelligent are you?” We like to measure things, so this is a question we’d love to ask our fellows. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has done more than anybody to challenge the ‘single measure’ approach and introduce a more comprehensive understanding of intelligence.

Gardner proposed that we each have a range of intelligences, which we deploy in varying strengths. Our talents derive from combinations of these intelligences. He has worked hard to define ‘intelligence’ and set criteria for which capacities to consider as intelligences. Predictably, each of these has attracted much debate. Gardner himself has settled on eight intelligences – others propose more.

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