Your Unique Intelligence

As you’ve doubtless noticed, I can’t just pick a topic and write on it—I write about whatever is uppermost in my mind at the moment, and weeks, months, or sometimes years later, I send it on its way for the world to read. What is presently uppermost in my mind is my unique intelligence. (Although I titled this “Your” unique intelligence, I really cannot write about yours—only you can.)

The basis of this is that there are seven types of thinking, and all of us who are functioning at a level of “normal” (ie, we aren’t autistic) are using all seven types, in varied order and in varying degrees and different ways. To satisfy your curiosity, I will tell you that the seven types (I’ll list them in the order in which I use them) are intrapersonal, interpersonal, linguistic, musical, mathematical/logical, kinesthetic, and visual/spatial. What this means for me is that time alone to think deeply is what switches on my intelligence, and when I can see a thing in my minds eye, I know that I’ve “got it.”

The point that was being made when this was presented to me was that we each cycle through a thought in our own particular order, without even being aware of it. I have to say that I didn’t fully grasp the whole thought-cycle concept, but after hearing it a few times, and discussing it with my mother, whose cycle begins with interpersonal and ends with intrapersonal, I developed my own little theory: my (your) natural thought cycle may very well be my (your) natural—and most productive—day cycle.

I have noticed, for instance, that if I begin the day with occupational work (and mine is at least 90% mathematical/logical) my brain gets into high gear, and nothing I do after that during the day can calm it down. In a nutshell, I push myself into a stressed state. The same happens when I start out the day kinesthetically—with housework, for instance, or a massage. There is no question whatsoever that the best way for me to start my day is to be very quiet and still, and to think. Period.

No wonder at all why my mother used to drive me and my dad right up a wall. She needed to start her day with social interaction, and we needed to start our day with solitude. She wanted to socially interact with us, and we wanted to be left alone. She felt rejected if we didn’t talk with her, and we felt invaded when she wouldn’t leave us be. It was a stroke of genius for her to sleep in while we made it through stage one of our day cycle—solitude.

The way you are is not wrong. It’s true that the sin that lurks in human nature is bad, but your natural intelligence, your own cycle and way, is not bad.

And that is a good thing to remember.

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