The 8 Kinds of Smart are already within each us! It's part of our nature as human beings. However, as you've discovered from your SmartProfile™ not all of the intelligences are equally developed.
As I mentioned in the introduction to the SmartProfile™ Information & Management Center some of your intelligences are strong and highly developed. Others are emerging. While still others are in various states of latency or are simply asleep!
But again, the good news is that any underdeveloped intelligence can be enhanced, improved, and otherwise strengthened. The following set of exercises are designed to help you "awaken" your less developed intelligences and help grow those intelligence areas that need some help.
INSTRUCTIONS
During the coming week experiment with the follow set of exercises. The goal of these exercises is:
1) To help you become more aware of how much LogicSmart is part of your everyday life,
2) To increase your comfort level for working with this intelligence, and
3) To help you build your LogicSmart capacities.
The exercises are designed to help you understand the LogicSmart capacities which are already inside you just waiting to be awakened. Do each exercise once a day.
Enjoy this. It's not a difficult as it may seem, in fact, it's really quite fun!.
EXERCISE 1:
For one week, on your way to work and on the way home, see how many different patterns you can find. Look for both the obvious and the not so obvious.
EXERCISE 2:
At your job make two lists: “inductive” (from parts to wholes) and “deductive” ( from the whole to specific parts) thinking patterns. Is your workplace more inductive or deductive?
EXERCISE 3:
Make two columns labeled “Thinking Patterns” and “Situations.” Record the variety of thought processes you use during the day AND when you typically use each. Think about your strengths and weaknesses for each type of thinking.
EXERCISE 4:
Over several days, calculate and record as many number patterns that are part of life as possible. Look for both the obvious and the unusual.
EXERCISE 5:
During the week, anytime you solve a problem, stop and record the steps you went through. At the end of the week, look back over your lists and summarize and evaluate your problem-solving method.
EXERCISE 6:
At work make calculations, estimations, and measurements of unusual and interesting items that are part of every day. Make this a game. Each day find a new part of your life to calculate, estimate, and measure.
Reflection on the Week of LogicSmart Explorations
[Focus your thoughts on the past week and your work
with your LogicSmart through the exercises. Type your
reflections in the boxes provided, then click the "print button"
at the bottom of the page too save your work.]
1. As I think back over the week, what stands out in my mind from the LogicSmart explorations I’ve been doing?
2. What did I find most interesting about working with LogicSmart this week? What was surprising? What made me laugh? What disturbed me?
3. What new discoveries did I make about myself and my LogicSmart potentials this week? What benefits have I experienced from working with LogicSmart?
4. What can I do to make LogicSmart a regular part of my daily life? How can I use it on the job? At home with my family? In my personal life?
5. My next steps for continuing to work with LogicSmart are:
