Intelligence

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence not imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart says. He is the most famous and celebrated of all child prodigies. I have ever read the article describing Mozart and his father. Mozart had already had musical intelligence and cleared it by the age of four. His father, who was a famous violinist and composer, force him to practice a lot and devoted his energy to enhance Mozart's musical intelligence despite that fact that he had already had great musical talent. Therefore, Mozart ended to write three symphonies by the age of eight and was appointed the concertmaster, his father had desired, by thirteen.

I know a boy who has musical intelligence naturally. He was one of the students in my daughter's piano lesson. The piano who he was playing was surprising to me, because the playing and the melody was great, and I couldn't believe that he was the same as my daughter's age, seven years old. His remarkable ability was a quite famous in my city, and he was noticed by media because he got many prizes on piano contests. A few years later, his mother took him to the Republic of Austria to enhance his musical intelligence. He who has an autism doesn't like the sound of violins. His mother who is a violin teacher says that she tried him to play a violin, but he yelled out as soon as he heard the sound; however, he has been interested in a piano and has usually wanted to sit on her while she is playing piano since he was one or two years old. He has still lived there and kept enhancing his piano techniques for ten years.

There might be many children who have prodigy over the world. Child prodigy is unusual abilities might be very special children. The child might be famous, genius, or remarkable on the unique field, but as one of parents who have children, I suppose that the parents who have a child with a prodigy also might be needed to support to promote their abilities more and more.

On the other hand, according to Harvard professor Howard Gardner, developed a theory of multiple intelligence, there are eight different ways to be intelligent. They are linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, naturalistic intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence and logical-mathematics intelligence.

They are classified by people's personalities. It is difficult for me to discover my intelligence; however, it might be useful for people to look for matching job or work environments if people understand about their own personalities throughout them.