Knowing which intelligences you possess can help you study more effectively and even guide you towards a suitable career.

All of us are stronger in some intelligences and weaker in others since we are all intelligent in different ways. The most brilliant scientific professor may well have exceptional intelligence in a number of areas (probably logical-mathematical and one or two others) but will also be less able in other intelligences and is likely even inept in some. By the same token a person who struggles with language and numbers might easily be an excellent sportsman musician or artist. A hopeless academic who is tone-deaf and can't add up numbers could possess remarkable interpersonal skills.

Many very successful business people leaders writers scientists inventor and others were judged to be failures at school. Sir Winston Churchill noted as one of Britain’s greatest leaders was in fact a poor student and was often punished for his academic failures! Traditionally people were judged according to a very narrow definition of what constitutes intelligence — academic excellence and IQ — which schools customarily focused on. Commonly the people with the least ‘conventional’ intelligence actually possess enormous talent — often under-valued unknown and under-developed.