Emotional Intelligence and more

For the first time in my blogging career I was inspired to make a post about an issue that I didn't discover on yahoo.com. Infact, I wasn't even planning to make a blog post when I sat down in front of the computer. I was meandering about psychologytoday.com and came across an article titled, "What Emotional Intelligence Is and Is Not".

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-personality-analyst/200909/what-emotional-intelligence-is-and-is-not

I was fascinated by this article as a whole, but the segment titled, "Is EI a Better Predictor of Success than IQ?" interested me the most. The context didn't particularly enthrall me, it merely debunked the media's propagation that emotional intelligence is infact a better predictor of success than IQ. The title itself inspired me to research other kinds of intelligence and figure out what the best predictor of success actually is. I did some research on a Harvard professor named Dr. Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences.

http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

He believed that the traditional idea of intelligence (IQ, book smarts, ect) is far too limiting and does not give a rounded assessment of an individuals intelligence. He proposed eight different intelligences

	Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):
	Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
	Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
	Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
	Musical intelligence ("music smart")
	Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
	Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
	Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")

I think that modern day schools primarily develop/evaluate linguistic and logical intelligence. Therefore, students who are particularly well endowed with these forms of intelligence are misled to believe that they are guaranteed success.