Ter, will you ever stop talking about the Kardashians?
NO, NEVER
I will NEVER stop talking about them. And pay attention, this is going to be on the exam.
An American psychologist, Howard Gardner
Who must be 70 years old by now
Published "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" in 1983
Sponsored by Vaughan System
I'm kidding
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
In this book he differentiates intelligence into 8 specific 'modalities'
Associated with different parts of the brain
The 8 intelligence modalities are the following: verbal-linguistic, musical-rhythmic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial
Bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
What's the meaning of each?
The regions of the brain that I am going to label are illustrative
If you are an expert in the human brain, don't get mad if it's not very precise
And by the way, could you study Rihanna's brain? Because sweet baby jesus, it must be a wonder! OK? Byeeeee
Verbal-linguistic intelligence is about languages
Oral and written comprehension, communication...etc
Musical-rhythmic intelligence is about
The ability to create, analyze and understand music, rhythm, harmonies...
Logical-mathematical intelligence
It is the ability to identify models. To formulate, develop and verify hypotheses. It is a numerical intelligence.
And being able to estimate distances, measurements. Quantities and numbers, basically.
Visual-spatial intelligence has to do with...
Being able to recreate 3D models in your mind and visualize it from all directions
Perceive visual details, create mental images
Produce visual creations
This would include the sense of aesthetics
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is about using your own body to solve problems and do any physical activity...
...that requires balance, strength o coordination.
Intrapersonal intelligence is about being able to understand yourself, evaluate your own defects and virtues
The ability to control your own thinking
Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand everybody else. It's basically empathy.
The ability to recognize, understand and respond to other people's feelings and thoughts
And finally, naturalistic intelligence has to do with the ability to study, observe, understand and analyze nature
What's the point of this theory?
It places Einstein, Tim Duncan and Kim Kardashian on an equal footing
Einstein possessed an impressive logical-mathematical intelligence
Amazing! Very above everything. But...
He would never have been able to reach the numbers Kim Kardashian reaches on social networks
Because he didn't possess the same interpersonal intelligence as Kim Kardashian
And he would never have taken selfies as amazing as Kim Kardashian's because he didn't possess her visual-spatial intelligence
Tim Duncan can't develop the Theory of Relativity or have 100 million followers on Instagram
And he can't take proper selfies
But he possesses a breathtaking bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
Eh?
Look at these moves!
Please, let's... hold on, one second, pause.
Let's have one minute of appreciation for San Antonio Spurs
Please... in particular Tim Duncan but appreciate the whole team, please
Look at those moves!
I just can't, it's too much
Fun fact about Ter: I played basketball for 10 years and then I quit
Such a shame, but I did quit
If you give me a ball right now I can't do anything with it
But there was a time in which I could play basketball... and I actually loved it... but whatever
That's just life
So everything I'm telling you today... it doesn't matter if you don't understand physics, basketball or social networks
You just have to be able to admire and respect it
That's it
The key to this video is that our dear friends: those bunch of purists, believe that there's  only one kind of intelligence
Academic intelligence. Which you can only acquire studying, being cultured, reading a lot...and those stuffs
That's the biggest stupidity I've ever heard in my life
How can you possibly believe that there's only one kind of intelligence, the Academic one?
Maybe there is a man who has never ever studied, but he has a field full of olive trees
And he takes really good care of those olive trees and he makes the best olive oil EVER
A purist would say "Another ignorant and illiterate person, no wonder things are as they are in Spain"
Excuse me? Purist person: You are a pathetic human being
You are a pathetic being
What else can I say about you? Do you have any idea of how hard it is to properly grow olive trees?
Why don't you go and try grow an olive tree? Let's see the results
It will probably die
And you won't have olive oil
Do you know how healthy olive oil is? It has antioxidants, vitamin E...It's good for you, your skin and for everything.
The purist despises the man of the olive trees because he has not seen the films of Eric Rohmer.
So he thinks he's unworthy.
You should know, Dear purist, that Eric Rohmer would completely disagree with that
Actually, Eric Rohmer wouldn't like you at all
He would give you a fake phone number
All the digts of his phone number would be right except for the last one
Something else that I completely hate "Oh, that person has nothing but a pretty face"
This person puts good makeup on, dresses well, with style... but apart from that, they have nothing else.
Please, what should a do with such a pathetic person?
What should I do? I really don't know
Help me, Kanye West
Can't you see that person has decided to take care of their physical appearance and that requires an amazing visual-spatial intelligence?
And an impressive and hard-to-posses sense of aesthetics?
A company as big as Appel has decided to shamelessly base its entire business strategy on design and aesthetics.
I don't know what else I can say
Actually, I thought about making a video-performance titled "I am more than just a pretty face"
And the whole video would be me smiling like this
But then I thought maybe people would draw the opposite conclusions
What I wanted to say is that I am completely in favor of being JUST a pretty face
But people would probably understand the opposite... NOT YOU GUYS
The Terdashian Community would understand it perfectly
I am not worried about you, I'm worried about the rest
Those who would misunderstand the video! That's a huge problem!
There's some videos I've made that people don't seem to understand
What don't you get? There's nothing to understand! It's just obvious!
You can't imagine how many messages I receive telling me "You're not just a pretty face, you're also smart"
What do you mean by that? That is an absurd statement!
And they mean it as a compliment!!
What's your point?
What do you want from me? Why do you say such pathetic sentences?
That's a disgusting mentality and I am totally against it
By the way, I think you already know every time I talk towards that corner I am talking to a pathetic human being
And when I talk towards the camera I am talking to the Terdashian Community
The point is that I hate that only the intelligence that gets recognition is the one of being cultured like
"Oh, he's read all of the Dostoyevski's books"
Dostoyevski's super cool, I'm not saying he isn't, but there's SO MUCH MORE
Actually there's a Dostoyevski's book called "The Idiot", hold on, I think I have it
Here it is.
There's a guy who's the only one who has actually comprehended the world but everybody thinks he's an idiot
This book is very well written, spectacularly well written. Check this out
"For me the strange saying that there will be no more time becomes somehow understandable"
This sounds like a Tumblr post!
I love it!
Well, that's it
I'm done, I have nothing else to say
Were you surprised to know that I used to play basketball? I don't know
Maybe it's been surprising for you. But I mean, why should it be surprising? That's nonsense
Well byeeeeee!
