What does it mean to be smart?
Is achieving high scores on IQ tests or school ability tests, is proof that someone is smart or not.Does smart people are those who have fantastic memory? The schools are often singled out children who have high scores and they always pay more attention than those with lower scores.
In practice, the mind is defined as the ability to solve problems and quickly understand. Speed is identified and adopted as a feature of the intellect.
Dr. Howard Gardner in his book 'Frames of Mind', speaks of seven kinds of intelligence. He believes that intelligence is measured very closely.
There is seven types of intelligence by Gardner that can help to organize the categories of the intellect, seven ways to better understand our nature.
First. VERBAL INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence words. It refers to words and language, the ability to think and communicate in verbal terms. Being clever lexical.
Second. VISUAL INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence picture. Based on Sense of vision or ability to visualize, the ability to think through the forms or schedules, to interpret symbols and imagine possibilities. If someone has a visual intelligence,they will likely to draw their ideas on paper and present as images.
Third. PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence of the body. Refers to the physical movement: the ability to "mind body", to understand things with the help of physical contact; knowledge through touch.
Fourth. MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. Musical mind. Based on someones ability to recognize melodic motifs and musical thought, that instinctively feel melodic, rhythmic and harmonic 'events', to use sound and rhythm of the eloquent expression of thoughts.
Fifth. MATHEMATICAL and LOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. A logical mind. Sometimes referred to as the scientific intelligentsia, it is based on the power of reasoning and the possibility of handling numbers and formulas, and building a system of argumentation.
Sixth. INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The social mind. Directs our relationships with other people; high empathy is characteristic of this type of intellect and helps us to have a good relationship with all types of people.
Seventh. INTRA-PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The inner mind. It refers to our ability to look inside our self and understand our self, our essence and feelings. A strong sense of self.


Taken from the book by Jim Cathcart
The Acorn Principle.

Little things...

In today's time, time of poverty, we often complain that life is difficult.Looking the black around us, all this makes us unfortunate. I know it's hard to see the positive side, but not so hard to try and look at beautiful things around us. Things that can make us happy.
These are usually little things, but the little things and make life. Sometimes those are big things, but we fail to notice it because we are blinded with the blackness...

So, I'm walking and I see a bird that flies around.  I stop and start to watch. I'm thinking: How is it to fly freely? What if I have wings? Where would I flew? And then a little bit sad, because I do not have wings, with all unanswered these questions, I keep going to walk. I made few steps and then get back.  Suddenly I realized, I have wings to the extent as much as i allow to myself. I am happy, because I can create  my own wings,an imagined wings, that I'll just know. I can afford myself to fly where I want. And what makes me happier,is the knowledge that no one can break my wings. I will never allow it.

I start walk further and I saw a tree. Completely naked, without a single leaf.But I know, soon it will have it crown again, enriched with the new green leaves. It will give us new hope, hope that we can't never lose. And even then, when a tree become a rot, and when somebody come to cut it, I'll be happy, because I know that, somewhere there is a fallen seed, and that from the seeds, like the Phoenix from the ashes,there will be newborn tree, the same one. So how I can be unhappy when I see a tree, there is always hope.

I am happy when I see the sun, flowers, butterflies. So even if I am blind, if I can't see it all, again I would be happy, because we can not be blind with emotion,feelings.Knowing that the sun is shining up there somewhere, that warms me, the feel of the sun on my skin,on my face would make me happy.I would feel wonderful smell of flowers and with my hands I can feel gentle wings of butterflies. The fact that all that exists, it can not unhappy us... The fact that all this exists, it can't make us unhappy.

Little things, little things that make life and we if we are aware, we can be happy, we just need to try ...