Mensa International. Inner Alignment of Intelligences. This is a pattern designed to use your seven kinds of smart.
The first part is a sequential instruction set. The second part lays out the same instructions in a way that will enable you to print them and use them for the pattern easily. Here is how these Intelligences might be accessed and aligned within us for a particular purpose. Step 1 Label 7 cards with the 7 kinds of smart. (Or print and cut the summary of anchors list.)
Step 2. Step 3 Lay out the cards on the floor with a couple of feet between them. Step 4 Stand at the Linguistic intelligence card so that the rest of the cards are on the floor in a line behind you. Step 5 Slowly as you feel comfortable step back onto the card marked Logical-Mathematical Intelligence. Step 6 Slowly as you feel comfortable step back onto the card marked Spatial Intelligence. Step 7 Slowly as you feel comfortable step back onto the card marked Musical Intelligence. Take a step forward and clench your fist. Take a step forward and snap your fingers. The Creative Power of Thinking Outside Yourself. New research suggests we generate more creative ideas for other people than for ourselves.
The hackneyed expression “thinking outside the box” is thought to come from the puzzle below. The idea is to try and join up all the dots using four straight lines or fewer without taking your pen off the paper or tracing over the same line twice. The ‘box’ that the expression refers to is the implicit one formed in your mind by the dots. To get the solution you have to ignore this implicit box: you have to, as it were, think outside it. (If you’re stuck in the box, google the ‘nine dots’ puzzle for the solution.) Puzzles like this challenge us to reach novel solutions by avoiding habitual ways of thinking. Imagine there’s a prisoner trying to escape from a high tower.
People were given slightly different versions of this test in a new study by Polman and Emich (2011). What happened was that 66% of people got the answer right when told it was a nameless ‘prisoner’ who was stuck in the tower. Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis. This article deals with a subset of the intellectual process of intelligence analysis itself, as opposed to intelligence analysis management, which in turn is a subcomponent of intelligence cycle management.
For a complete hierarchical list of articles in this series, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. Intelligence analysis is plagued by many of the cognitive traps also encountered in other disciplines. The first systematic study of the specific pitfalls lying between an intelligence analyst and clear thinking was carried out by Dick Heuer.[1] According to Heuer, these traps may be rooted either in the analyst's organizational culture or his or her own personality. Types[edit] The most common personality trap, known as mirror-imaging[2] is the analysts' assumption that the people being studied think like the analysts themselves. Inappropriate analogies are yet another cognitive trap.
Organizational culture[edit] The "other culture"[edit] The social anthropologist Edward T. Great Ideas in Personality. The Evolution of Human Intelligence.