Use any one of your strengths to come up with a better way of doing a thing and you’ve likely already begun to use brain based problem solving approaches. Verbal-Linguistic: tell stories, write email messages, participate in interviews, converse easily with peers.
What strength do you see for yourself ... how are you gifted ... and how would others describe your specific intelligences? Use one 
new intelligence and enjoy the creative results you can expect as a result of hidden or unused talents.
Visual-Spatial: read blueprints, create ads, design web pages, draw maps, draw pictures, take photographs and create displays.
Logical-Mathematical: solve problems, balance checkbooks, make and keep schedules, budget their money.
Musical: attend concerts, play an instrument, hum melodies, sing along with others, enjoy rhythm and rhyme.
Intrapersonal: keep a personal journal, enjoy reading alone, study to answer personal questions about life.
Bodily-Kinesthetic: engage in sports, enjoy moving body to music, enjoy walking tours, use body language.
Interpersonal: work in teams, engage in family and community projects, enjoy debates, join chat rooms on the web.
Naturalistic: collect wildflower specimens, enjoy hunting expeditions, follow an animal's footprints, photograph landscapes, visit the zoo.
Throughout the process of simply doing something you have not done, you begin to use and grow your stronger gifts creatively. It’s actually quite simple. See any applications for a project that uses more of your unique capabilities? What do you think?
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Distinctives of Brain Based Learning Settings. I read and interesting article, What it Means to Work Here, by Tamara Erickson and Lynda Gratton, in this month’s Harvard Business Review. The authors claim that “every company needs a signatur... [Read More]
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