Merriam Webster's Essay What Is Intelligence Anyway?

Intelligence, noun: The skill used of reason (Merriam Webster). Throughout history many people, psychologists mostly, have studied this topic. One of these people happened to be an American developmental psychologist named Howard Gardner. He believed there to be 9 types of Intelligence and in a world, with 7 billion people it's not hard to argue that there's certainly more than one. In the essay “What Is Intelligence Anyway?” the car mechanic mocks jokingly how the man with a college degree isn't street smart. My view on things is that the car mechanic is actually holding some truth with his statement. Just because you're street smart doesn't mean you're book smart, growing up in a big family surrounded by different intellectual mindsets made me come to that conclusion.
My oldest brother Zach who's 10 years older than I am has a knack for technical things, Logical intelligence. He's aware of how to take things apart and put them back together, in fact, he's always been that way. I recall my father telling me a story once about when Zach was a little kid. My Dad was trying to
As a kid I grew up playing the violin, Still, to this day, I remember my mom to waking me up early to practice before school started. I was great at it I played for years and even played at May Fair for one of my recitals. Going back to when I said I had an “ear for rhythms and sounds” I meant that I could hear a sound being played and then easily mimic and play that rhythm back to you. I recall neglecting to read the music sheets for awhile during music lessons because they were “too hard” at the time or it simply just took extra energy and time that I didn't care to spare and if my teacher would play the song I'm supposed to be learning for me to hear a couple of times I thought “Why should I bother?” Eventually, my mom and teacher caught on and had me read the