Expresiones como "no puedes", "eso no es para ti", "tú no has nacido para eso", "eso sólo es para privilegiados" nos acompañan cada día a lo largo de nuestra vida, siempre hay alguien que nos dice algo así y en algún momento nosotros nos lo creemos y nos lo repetimos como si fuera una verdad absoluta. Pero ¿realmente es verdad?
Durante mucho tiempo, se ha pensado que si no eras bueno en letras o ciencias sólo valías para los trabajos más duros y con menos reconocimiento social; en muchas familias se decía "o estudias o te pondré a trabajar en la obra/bar/mina..." o directamente decían "tú no vales para estudiar así que mañana mañana empiezas a trabajar en la fábrica". El mundo se reducía a dos tipos de personas los "listos" que estudiaban para ser jefes y los "tontos" que trabajaban de sol a sol.
Howard Gardner, un psicólogo, investigador y profesor de Harvard, desarrolló la teoría de las inteligencias múltiples, según la cual cada persona está formada por un conjunto potencialidades o inteligencias que le ayudan en la resolución de problemas. Es una visión no unitaria de la inteligencia y que permite entender porqué hay personas que tienen expedientes académicos brillantes pero un bajo nivel de adaptación social, o cómo alguien con unas notas pobres puede resultar un músico excepcional. Desde este punto de vista, no hay "tontos" o "listos", sino personas que tienen unas inteligencias más desarrolladas que otras.
Siguiendo esta teoría, lo único que nos separa del éxito es descubrir cuál es nuestra inteligencia predominante y trabajar sobre ella, porque sólo así alcanzaremos todo nuestro potencial. Se acabaron los días grises en los que si no tenías buenas notas no valías para nada, somos valiosos porque todos tenemos algo que se nos da espectacularmente bien y es lo que tenemos que mostrar a los demás. Feliz día.
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Sentences like "you can't", "that's not for you", "you haven't been born for that", "that's only for the privileged ones" accompany us every day throughout our lives, there’s always someone telling us something like that and we, at some point, end up believing it and repeating it as it it was an absolute truth. But, ¿is it really true?
For a long time, it’s been thought that if you weren’t good at writing or sciences you were only worthy for the hardest and less socially recognized jobs; many families used to say “study or I will make you work in the building/bar/mine” or they simply said “you are not made for studying so tomorrow, you will start to work in the factory”. The world had only two types of people, the “clever” who studied to become bosses and the “dumb” who had to work 24/7.
Howard Gardner -psychologist, researcher and professor at Harvard, developed the theory of multiple intelligences, which states that each person is made by a group of potentialities or intelligences that help them to work things out. It’s a non unitary vision of the intelligences which allow us to understand why people with an extraordinary academic record have a low level of social adaptation, or how it’s possible for somebody with poor marks to be an exceptional musician. From this point of view, there’s no “dumbs” or “smarts” but people with some intelligences more developed than others.
According to this theory, the only thing that keeps us away from success is to find out which is our main intelligence and work on it, because this is the only way to achieve our whole potential. Those sad days, in which if you didn’t have good marks you weren’t worthy, are over; we are all valuable since we all are extraordinary at something and that’s what we have to show to others. Have a nice day.
For a long time, it’s been thought that if you weren’t good at writing or sciences you were only worthy for the hardest and less socially recognized jobs; many families used to say “study or I will make you work in the building/bar/mine” or they simply said “you are not made for studying so tomorrow, you will start to work in the factory”. The world had only two types of people, the “clever” who studied to become bosses and the “dumb” who had to work 24/7.
Howard Gardner -psychologist, researcher and professor at Harvard, developed the theory of multiple intelligences, which states that each person is made by a group of potentialities or intelligences that help them to work things out. It’s a non unitary vision of the intelligences which allow us to understand why people with an extraordinary academic record have a low level of social adaptation, or how it’s possible for somebody with poor marks to be an exceptional musician. From this point of view, there’s no “dumbs” or “smarts” but people with some intelligences more developed than others.
According to this theory, the only thing that keeps us away from success is to find out which is our main intelligence and work on it, because this is the only way to achieve our whole potential. Those sad days, in which if you didn’t have good marks you weren’t worthy, are over; we are all valuable since we all are extraordinary at something and that’s what we have to show to others. Have a nice day.
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