Beyond Wit and Grit: Rethinking the Keys to Success | Howard Gardner | TEDxBeaconStreet

What does it take to be truly successful in the long run? If you think the answer is "be smart" and "work hard" you need to see and hear my talk.

Howard Gardner teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, He has authored many books, including MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES and TRUTH, BEAUTY, AND GOODNESS REFRAMED. He has won many awards, including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and has received honorary degrees from over 30 institutions all over the world.

[emilianodelvalle]

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[miguelhinostrozaaylas]

00:30 Dr Gardner show us the meaning of Wit and give some examples of people with wit.
00:40 Dr Gardner show us the meaning of Grit and give some examples of people with wit.
00:53 The Dr Gardner's Old view: Wit + Grit = Success.
01:26 Dr Gardner tells us that he is gonna review a research that he made during almost 40 years as psychologist.
01:36 Dr Gardner tells us that he has changed his view about the importance of Wit and Grit
02:09 Dr. Gardner admits that in his youth he believed in the effectiveness of the IQ Test and that it definitively determined a person's intelligence.
02:27 Dr Gardner tells us that part of his research consisted of working with children, including patients with brain injuries, with which he drew quite revealing conclusions.
02:54 Dr Gardner tells us that it is very important to recognize the area where the brain damage occurred as this determines which abilities have been completely lost and which have not.
03:19 Dr Gardner reveals to us that in the 1980s, and as a product of his research, he devoted himself to the study of human development in different cultures and to the study of the brain and its very specialized regions. Finally, all his conclusions are written in a book called "Frames of Mind: Theory of Multiple Intelligences". The book for which he became known worldwide.
03:51 Dr Gardner explains to us what multiple intelligences are by making a parallel with computers.

Types of intelligences
4:14 Linguistic Intelligence (It's the intelligence of a poet or a Journalist)
4:23 Logical-mathematical Intelligence (It's the intelligence of a scientist or a computer programmer)
4:46 Musical Intelligence (It's the intelligence of a conductor or a great performer)
5:00 Spatial Intelligence (The hability to deal with local space, like a chess player or much broader space like a sailor or navigator)
5:10 Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence (It's the intelligence of an athlete or a craft person)
5:24 Interpersonal Intelligence (The hability to understand other people)
5:45 Intrapersonal Intelligence (The hability to understand yourself like a meditator, the goal is to have more understanding of yourself)
6:00 Naturalist Intelligence (The hability to make distinctions in the nature like diferentiate plants or communicate with animals)

6:20 Dr Gardner after his research and studies realized that we do not have just one wit, but wits.

6:26 Dr Gardner points out his principal takeaways.

8:28 Some misconceptions about multiple intelligence.

8:33 Dermatoglyphics (Claims that you can a look at people's fingerprints and tell how smart they are)

9:50 Dr Gardner starts talking about Grit again.

12:05 The Good Project

12:36 He talks about the three components of the good work. (It's excellent, engaged and ethical)

13:23 He talks about a new website he created called "The Good Project" (It talks about good work, good play, good citizenship, good collaboration and it gives people games, devices and tools to try to become good themselves and help other people attain the good)

[Arkinas]

anyone here because their professor want them to write a paper about this?

[feedback]

What a beautiful speech! Thanks Dr. Gardner for sharing your knowledge to create a more inclusive and encouraging world.

[emmanuelsantos]

Oh so nice to see Dr Gardner.. He is so famous in the Philippines.

[roxannetan]

I agree with Gardner’s theory to a certain extent, I do believe that these multiple intelligences can give insight to a person’s strengths and abilities. However, I do not believe that we should use this theory to see if we can “be something” or “do something” because I firmly believe that anyone can adapt to their environment and accomplish anything they want to. Just because someone has an advantage in a particular field of intelligence, it does not mean that the person who is disadvantaged cannot achieve the same goal.

[pankajbhatia]

Thanks, Dr. Gardner. Excellent points, excellently delivered!

[aaronwimberleymbamsf]

I love Howard Gardner!! Wit & Grit are so crucial.

[domINkl]

succint, absolutely relevant and I just wish I could get my teen son to listen to this!

[eytanfichman]

So good to feel like I am 'back in your classroom' while watching this presentation. Thank you.

[lindagreen]

I heard of Harold Gardner when I read Grit by Angela Duckworth. Excellent and inspiring!

[francevillamizar]

0:16 Qué se necesita para tener exito 4:07
6:16 8 inteligencias (6:54)
9:44 Determinación (12:04)
16:11 Repuesta a la pregunta para tener exito. (16:54)

[blackumbrella]

I don't know about multiple intelligence but clearly there are two difference types of daughter

8:16 Bad Daughter

12:54 Good Daughter

[xloves]

We study about this guy! I just found out now that he's still alive. Keke. One always thinks most people in textbooks are dead.

[rociorinaldi]

I love him! He's a genius and as most genii he's humble, funny and a good person... <3 Love from Argentina! Thanks for giving us such interest information. When I was about 10 years old, I thought that not all children liked to do the same, and I thought that I'd like to be successful in something (I love arts, painting, singing, acting, though I love other things too like reading, writing, crafting and I grew up surrounded by animals because my parents loved them and so do I) But my father was very intelligent at a logical-mathematical level, and I wasn't as good as him, nor my brothers. So when he discussed about school with my older brother who had musical intelligence since he was a little child, I realized that not all children like the same things. Surely I'd watched some documental on tv in those days, about Gardner's MI intelligences, because I'm not a genius to elaborate that thought by myself, I think, but I dreamed about schools oriented to help homeless people, specially children, and if they didn't want to study in a formal way, I thought that they could learn something they liked to make a living, some trade like wood crafting, pottery or whatever they liked, but not necessarily a career if they didn't like to study... I made this conclusion because my older brother had some problems with reading, probably he had some grade of dislexia, and even of dislalia because he had some trouble to pronounce certain words... and my father only thought he was lazy to study. But for music he didn't have problems and he could spend hours learning about it by ear. So he wasn't lazy. Now that I'm studying to be an English Teacher, I realize that those child thoughts were not far from truth... Not all people learn the same way nor have the same intelligences. The best thing my father did with me was to incentivate my curiosity, and when he realized that I learned to read by myself when I was 4 years old, he gifted me with a collection of encyclopedic books called "The Treasure of Youth" that belonged to his father... and I learned a lot of interesting things and when I didn't understand something, my parents explained it to me, or told me "You'll understand later"... especially regarding to chemistry themes. However, I learned a lot of things but as Gardner said, when you have to live sudden changes in your life, you need other intelligences activated... I'm not a genius, but I'd like to apply many things I learned when I get my Teacher's degree, to teach to my students.

[deepeshukla]

Ancient Indian literature talks about 64 types of intelligences (64 kalaa)

[Nana-eqbq]

I am doing my research on this topic about the role of multiple intelligence in learning English language can someone provide me with some references

[UnicornUniverse]

What happened with Debbie and the fight for justice??

[seyma]

Lütfen Türkçe çeviri de ekler misiniz

[Zanzamat]

Yes, very good. Although that was a hurdle runner not a high jumper...