Guided Journal: Intelligences

Guided Journal: Intelligences

My two strongest intelligences are Linguistic and Spatial intelligence. As an aspiring author, I am deeply immersed in the English language and like to express myself through words and meanings. To better get my points across, I often look within myself to try and find a better word to describe how I truly feel about things. I see the world through a field of colors, which is why Spatial is one of my strongest suits as well.

Whenever I’m writing and/or listening to music, I visualize a scene in my head and try to expand on it the best I can. I learn through visuals and like to draw conclusions from the material already learned.

Unfortunately, though, I have some weaknesses, and those are mathematical and intrapersonal intelligence. Math has always been a struggle for me, even as a little girl, and I just couldn’t even begin to fathom what any of the concepts meant.  Now as a college student, I still can’t put the pieces together and often struggle with retaining the information. As an artistic individual, I’m looking for patterns in math to better understand it, but the patterns are too complex for me to handle and my brain just can’t even separate between what’s right and wrong. 

At the age of fourteen, I feel like I’ve always struggled with identity and my mental health, but now as a young adult, I feel like things have only gotten worse for me and I struggle to pick myself up every single day.  With that being said, intrapersonal is something that I really struggle with and it is an area in my life that I’m not too skilled at. I’d like to get better at meditating and taking care of myself so that I can have a better future. I’d like to acquire more knowledge in this area so that I can love myself more and be truly happy with where I am.

Another area that I’d like to work on in my life is math. I feel very insecure when I’m buying something from the store or calculating time in my head, so I’d like to be a bit more knowledgeable in this area so that I can feel safe again.