Which type of intelligences do you believe are your strongest and weakest?

[AmandaYVR]

I have not read anything about this so I can't speak to its relevance or validity, but this comes from 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences' by Howard Gardner.

I'm leaving out some of his categories because I can't list more than A through G, and I do think some are less relevant.

Anyone know anything about this?
Anyway, could be an interesting way to learn more about a person.

For myself, I'd answer:
Strongest: Interpersonal
Weakest: Bodily-Kinesthetic
All the others, I feel about equal.

Spatial: Visualizing the world in 3D

Musical: Discerning sounds, their pitch, tone, rhythm, and timbre

Logical-Mathematical: Quantifying things, making hypotheses and proving them

Existential: Tackling the questions of why we live, and why we die

Interpersonal: Sensing people's feelings and motives

Bodily-Kinesthetic: Coordinating your mind with yoour body

Linguistic: Finding the right words to express what you mean

[Kurαȷ]

This is what a random internet test told me:

Besides, if inter and intra-personal intelligences are real, they have to be the same thing, since understanding others is just an extrapolation of what you already know about your own psychology.
It seems to me that the benchmark for it here was kindness, empathy and social interaction, which is bogus- that's measuring a social personality trait, not a specific intellectual capacity for anything. (and that's my biggest gripe with "alternate intelligences", they fail to measure what they claim to measure)
What I don't agree with the test on is the interpretation of "interpersonal" intelligence.

I'm not particularly braindead in any of them, but visual-spatial has always been my strongest suit, followed by linguistic and then logical-mathematical which tends to be my weakest, most unrefined area.
Personally, I don't agree with the theory of multiple intelligences, but I agree with how the test ranked the academic intelligences in my case.

[Kurαȷ]

G@G has completely jumbled up my response, it seems.
Read sentences from bottom to the... top?
I'm just going to chalk it off as one of those magical ways that G@G works in for apparently no good reason.

[Obtuse]

Probably interpersonal and bodily-kinesthetic as my strongest, then spatial and logical-mathematical as reasonably strong.

My weakest tend to be intrapersonal (I'm constantly struggling to figure out myself, tap into the subconscious) and linguistic (I'm a horrible writer and struggle a lot to come up with the right way to word things).

[Obtuse]

It's difficult to analyze myself here though since intrapersonal might be my ultimate weakness. :-D I've got a bizarre childhood when I went from star athlete in school to teacher's pet, then socialite, while bouncing between cultures and adapting to them and the language.

I would say I'm mostly inclined to excel at interpersonal and bodily-kinesthetic. For the interpersonal part, I've often been accused of being psychic in person when I'm just paying very careful attention to nuance in body language, facial expressions, the most subtle changes in vocal pitch, and interpret between the lines. I'm prone to overthink but my scientific background has allowed me to counter any tendency to jump to irrational conclusions that have a low probability of being correct.

And I suspect bodily-kinesthetic is another since I tend to pick up sports and physical activities very quickly, and I actually that's how I started to excel in school and in my career towards the later stages of my life. I'm not the brightest but I can really handle lots and lots of pressure of a kind that leads to the longest hours, extreme exhaustion, and still champion through it while others break and complain and give up. I don't consider it much different from the type of willpower I needed to excel competitively in sports. But I'm not really all that bright -- this is my one superpower besides the interpersonal that makes others think I'm psychic.

[Obtuse]

[...] I actually [believe] that's how I started to excel in school and in my career towards the later stages of my life.

[Obtuse]

I would say that aligns also with what I had from early childhood. It becomes more complicated to pinpoint my strengths (my weaknesses easier) based on my accomplishments the further down the years I go. But as a little boy, where I distinguished myself most was athletically although just in a small private school (won gold in every single field event in my school from swimming to 100m dash to 400m dash to setting the school record for push-ups and pull-ups, but I got that trend throughout my schooling to at least excel in a number of areas if not all). I was actually only an average student back then.

And then perhaps empathy and getting along with others. There was something weird about me as a little boy in that I was inclined to do things like offer my ice cream to middle-aged women who dropped theirs while other kids laughed, and I turned both a bully and a bully victim into friends by defending the victim from the bully and knocking him down. I had some sort of strange thing there where it would actually cause me some pain to see others suffer.

[Obtuse]

I also like to draw and make music but I consider them more interests than strengths. I'm mediocre at both and mostly self-taught. I excelled at doing really rapid speed paintings in minutes like this and could kind of boil down complex subjects to their simplest visual components (where I got the speed):


But I was never all that creative or imaginative with it. It was like hand-eye coordination and simplifying, and maybe actually more tied to bodily-kinesthetic. And I like to make very amateur music like this on a keyboard, but I have no idea what I'm doing:
https://vocaroo.com/6R8KtYEU1lV

It's less like I was composing music and more like I was trying to learn how to play keyboard in the most unnecessarily difficult way possible without any proper understanding of scales, chords, rhythm, timbre, hand positioning, etc -- but in a fun way just trying to improvise something that sounded nice.

[Obtuse]

Anyway, sorry for my ramble. It's like intrapersonal is my super weakness so these questions are so difficult for me and I have a bit of an identity crisis. I can't place myself in groups in society. In schools I had difficulty with cliques since I didn't feel like I belonged in any of them perfectly since a lot of the members would have a superset of interests and I would only have a subset in common. The closest clique I could get along with best were the jocks since the entire range of interests we had in common typically: they were simple primitive interests like competing, fighting, horseplaying, pretty girls, showboating -- simple things I thoroughly enjoyed. But I'm not sure if I'm exactly a jock either. It's probably the closest thing to me though.

[DianaWest]

i am definitely mostly linguistic, you can't get me to shut up. i am also most likely a naturalist since i loooove nature and i am also quite interpersonal. i have a high eq, i am very compassionate, and i can read people quite well. my weakest i would say: hell, definitely mathematical/logical and kinesthetic.

[midnightmoon05]

Was part of my college class - very helpful to identify for the needs of my career.
Strength - Intra-pers., Inter- pers., Bodily - Kin.
Weakness - Musical, Math/Logic

[XavierSteele]

Interpersonal
I can't vote, I feel balanced in all of them. I am able to read people and understand if not predict their actions most times.
Musical
I started in 5th grade on the trumpet and from that have taught myself guitar and piano. Most instruments are easy to learn if you can figure out how to play an octave.
Naturalist
I love nature to it's fullest, it can be refreshing and invigorating when you realize how small one is in comparison to the world. I am just as at home in the woods and I am in my home.
Intrapersonal
This one totally irks my therapist. She knows that I know the answers and I am not as willing to deal with the issues she sees as relevant when I think there are more pressing one. On that I am more aware of my body, as well as the changes in health and emotional states.
Linguistic
That is something of a two sided question. Vocally I would say that I am defunct in my ability to properly express myself, yet through writing I can paint a tapestry that can rival any renaissance artist.
Logical
I don't see problems as problems rather just one puzzle that has a few pieces that need put into a certain order for them to fit together properly. When most people see impossible I see improbable.
Extensial
I tend to think on life's meaning most days any more. I feel as if the universe sort of guides us. Never really influencing us but showing us what we need to see. Sometimes we see it and sometimes we don't
Spacial
I would like to think the world would not be as mundane as 3D there has to be more than that in order to achieve the depth of what we see. Why can't there actually be a 4th and 5th dimension as well, or for that matter an entirety that is eternal?
Bodily Kinesthetic
Ok maybe this is the one that I feel I can improve on. But it's like lifting things or moving them. When you find the center of an objects gravity, you are more likely to move or life that item.

[sawno]

For me its a bit of a hybrid, i am really good at the existential stuff but thats because i can combine it with a strong logical mind. I am very good at sensing motives, but bad at reading faces. Which i always found interesting given most people train themselves to put up a straight face, but given i get more information from sound and reading/hearing between the lines their deception often fails on me.

My weakness without a doubt is Bodily-Kinesthetic and Linguistics. I have never been good at sports and sometimes feel like i am speaking trough a funnel because i can't find words in the language that explain a concept so ill speak in very specific references that when cited back to me in different wording mean something entirely different to me while to the person i am talking to it means exactly the same.

[hellionthesagereborn]

Well I think I'm good at most of those, but the ones that I am not I really am not. I'd say my best would be logical and/or intra-personal (had a lot of practice for that one) and my weakest by far would be musical (I love music but of all the arts its the only one I cannot understand (I can come up with stories and various art projects and designs but music, I just could never come up with any thing like that, not even at an amateur level (probably why I love it so much its so foreign to me)) and probably spatial (I'm mixed on inter-personal, on the one hand I feel like if I can stop myself from thinking about it I'm fairly decent at it but due to a tendency of overthinking I can be quite bad at it as well).

[Ziggystar]

The reason I didn't make a selection because there's quite a few of them selections I could take my biggest problem is is that suffer from mental illness I have been diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia mental depression with OCD I'll take their medications for it but yet when I went and had a psychological evaluation done they would not give me a paper stating that I was legally crazy because of my IQ level even though I'm crazy with mental problems in my brain I have a high IQ level borderline genius now imagine that

[Faerthurin]

I just took the test, and my highest was naturalist and intrapersonal (none of which were listed as a choice lmao). I took a different test a long time ago, and my highest was both intrapersonal and interpersonal. My weakest was musical, and I'm tone deaf lol

[brennanhuff]

Musical and existential. I understand, very deep philosophical things. Maybe I didn't read over thoroughly enough but what part counts for Strategy intelligence? I'm very good at seeing patterns and trends and using things to outdo someone and figuring easier "tricks" to something be seeing tendencies.

[The1Guy]

1. Existential
2. Intrapersonal
3. Interpersonal
4. Linguistic
5. Logical
6. Spatial

This list in order might be my strongest intelligences or they might be th ones that I value most of all righ now.

[kymberz]

what if they all are the same? like i can't pick one as my best or worst? i need to look this up. hang on and i will get more info and come back. and i spent a good minute reading all of them like 3 times. geesh.

[ImagineSketchy]

I have a difficult time with linguistic intelligence, I excel at musical, logical-mathmatical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and I'm ok with intrapersonal. Spatial, naturalist and existential are just there for me.

[arabgoddess]

Interpersonal.. I'm an empath and I get people

My weakness is mathematical and making hypotheses.. I feel very dumb in this area

[AmandaYVR]

That's interesting. I've heard your name mentioned a couple/few times about people liking you and confiding in you, so that fits.

[arabgoddess]

Aww 🥺thank you for noticing ♥ ♥ ♥

[AmandaYVR]

My pleasure.

[ArrowheadSW]

Logical-Mathematical first. Then Spacial. After that maybe Naturalist. All the others I relate to in some degree also but I'm not real big on Bodily-Kinesthetic.

[Lliam]

I voted B. Aside from that, I'd say mostly Spacial, Linguistic, and Intra-personal. I might add Bodily-Kinesthetic because I am fairly well coordinated.

[Laozi]

Strongest: Spatial, Logical-Mathematical, Interpersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic.

Weakest: Musical, Existential.

[Flower7]

I chose "interpersonal" because I'm an empath. I think my weakest is logical-mathematical. I hate numbers!

[taleets]

I am intra personal, interpersonal, and musical for sure. My weakest is spatial, logical/mathematical, and existential

[el_Te_de_la_Rosa]

Well, um, my strongest would be naturalistic and intra-personal which are not in the choices.
Interpersonal is my weakness.

[morimeme1]

I'd say my strongest are mathematical, interpersonal and existential while the weakest are musical and bodily.

[Haelaeix123]

I'd say interpersonal and intrapersonal are my strongest though linguistic and existential are also very strong for me. My weakest are definitely musical and naturalist.

[BlackRoseFairy]

I'd say my strongest is logical
Weakest is linguistics.

[Jjpayne]

I'd say I'm good with existential but still need work with interpersonal and linguistic

[SomeGuyCalledTom]

I'd say my main ones are linguistic, existential, logical (not so much mathematics; more like abstract reasoning and deduction etc) and interpersonal

[andreasderjuengere]

I see a geometric issue...

[humanearth]

I don't get it or understand it. Makes no sence to me.

So I guess I don't have intelligence

[Neptunsheart]

At the current point of research, Gardners theory seems to be outdated.

[blutwolfe]

linguistical, I feel like I never have the right words for what I'm feeling

[soleil2666]

I exceeded the test when those were done. I think it was on all (combined), not really sure - I never believed them.

[Ianto]

I'd rate highest on logical-mathematical.
Lowest is probably Musical and bodily-kinesthetic; I'm a really bad dancer.

[Chris006]

Quite equally bad at everything, except musical, thats my strongest one, I do have quite good existential understanding
as well, I've learned to become a real naturalist.

[Pejtu]

Weakest logical mathematical
Strongest 3d visualization

[7771999]

Pros:

- Interpersonal

- Linguistic

- Intrapersonal (to a degree)


Cons:

Basically everything else. Lol

[EnglundUberAlles]

Interpersonal is my weakest (no surprises there!) My strongest, I dunno, the deterioration of my mental state makes it hard to tell.

[Mad_man_x]

All these intelligence is absolutely necessary for surviving the burden known as life

Of which I think musical intelligence is the lowest

Nevertheless necessary

[theCobbler]

Strongest is Interpersonal
Weakest Spatial , I can even draw 3d...

[GreatnessBack]

I think I am strongest in body, linguistics and mathematics.

[clampfan101]

Strongest: Perhaps Logical-Mathematical?
Weakest: I strongly assume Linguistic.

[just_legit1998]

Strongest: linguistic.
Weakest: logical-mathematical.

[Lunatic1]

Best: existential
Worst: interpersonal
The others vary in the middle

[scooogy]

weakest: spatial and logical/mathematical
strongest: interpersonal and existential

[DanOh2018]

I'm pretty well rounded but my math needs practice.

[Mezius]

Im a huge philosopher. I delve way too much into the unknown.

[Sabretooth]

i'm good with most-but i failed hard with Linguistic.

[SydneySentinel]

Naturalist, interpersonal

[AmandaYVR]

Are you saying interpersonal is your weakest?

[SydneySentinel]

No, I think those are pretty evenly my strongest.

[CubsterShura]

That image just called me stupid in 9 ways.

[AmandaYVR]

Lmao. Yes, I know what you mean. I feel inadequate.

[CubsterShura]

Same here lol I don't feel intelligent in any of those

[babywerewoof]

Spatial is best, mathematical is worst.

[xardas]

Strongest: Existential
Weakest: Intra-personal

[Agape93]

Strongest: intrapersonal
Weakest: musical

[October808]

A, B, D, E, G.

Start the beat.

[Therisinghero12]

I think they're all about equal

[talltom94]

Weakest musical, strongest logical-mathematical

[farhaan7]

Strong naturalist and weak linguistic.

[Plitty-Tank]

I'm mathematically strong and linguistically weak.

[SnowMoon]

Interpersonal xx

[JesseJayNeak]

I'm a musical guy.