You Can All Be Intelligent But Don't Know It

[Olly]

I was reading pieces recently and one of them talked about intelligences. It said that because of the way schools are made up and teachers brainwashed as well as the government and everyone, we are told that words and sums make you intelligent and being able to work out things in an IQ test.

This man said that that is bullshit talk. He said that there are other intelligences out there that are just as relevant but maybe won't pay you a pension or a good wage or get you into Harvard because of the world and what it likes. What I mean is the following:

Social Intelligence
Spiritual Intelligence
Athletic Intelligence
Spatial Intelligence
Existential Intelligence

I think this has the potential to change the face of everything. What I mean is, if you are great at listening to people and giving great advice maybe on relationships or hygiene problems (social) then you might be just as much a genius as Einstein or Vorderman. When you're sitting in a bar and you are maybe brilliant at knowing how and where to erect a bouncy castle or hang a door (spatial) then people will point at you and say that man's a bloody genius. What needs to be done though is some kind of recognition for these talents. My grandmother was brilliant at spiritual intelligence as she was able to go to Mass twice a day and was never bored or complaining but was really poor and we used to throw her down scraps to keep her going. Maybe she should have got a grant for being into spirits or we should have talked to her more as a human.

I think it's time we equated the intelligence of someone like Pele, Carroll or Dan Gordon on the field with someone like Steve Jobs, Bamber Gascoigne, Roy Walker, Mike Murphy and Bob Holness. I'm not sure about existential intelligence but I think it's about knowing if you're alive or not and I'm not convinced that that's all that a great a talent.

[Man Marker]

Good man Olly, you have out done yourself this time!! lol

[muppet]

What about Olligence?