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What kind of thinker are you?<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| For many years, people used IQ tests to try and determine someone\u2019s intelligence. However, some researchers believe that IQ tests do not take into account the fact that different people might think in different ways, and have different strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n | Most people would agree that Mozart was a genius – but Mozart would probably have struggled with Einstein\u2019s theories just like the rest of us. This doesn\u2019t mean that one man was more clever than the other \u2013 they just thought in very different ways.<\/p>\n Many psychologists now believe that what we call intelligence can be subdivided into different categories, all of which can all be measured independently. Different kinds of thinking are needed to solve different problems. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/p>\n What your results say about you<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Some people have a strong preference for one style of thinking, and find some skills come more naturally than others. Other people tend to adopt different thinking styles in different situations.<\/p>\n | This test gives you an idea of what your current thinking style or styles are. But remember – the brain is a very adaptive organ. You should be able to improve your performance in any one of these categories with practice. <\/td>\n <\/td>\n | The Renaissance ideal<\/strong><\/p>\n | The leading thinkers of the Renaissance were not just experts in their own field. The renaissance scholar was expected to master all branches of knowledge.<\/p>\n With his insatiable desire to know everything, Leonardo da Vinci is often held up as the ideal Renaissance man.<\/font> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \n
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