I'd have put five exclamations points there but my editors won't let me - which is exactly why they're the editors. You knew that, of course, but now Canada wants to meet them and applications are being accepted right away to get your little lightbulb competing with other bright kids on national television for the title of Canada's Smartest Kid. There might be a brilliant little human sitting at your breakfast table every morning. I took to the arts like a mudskipper to a tree: writer. My sister was always a math wiz: ended up in finance. Apply to be on Canada's Smartest Person JuniorД¬BC's Canada's Smartest Person is predicated on just that theory вЂ“ that there are numerous intelligences that all lend themselves to exceptional acumen and problem solving.Case in point, there's a reason I'm writing this post and had no hand in designing the train you took to work today. In actuality, says Gardner, everyone is some kind of bright. Possibly, you're musically inclined with perfect pitch only a vocalization away or have social skills that let you read a face like an emotional map. Physical prowess allowing you to ace every slapshot may come easily to you, while logic puzzles escape you вЂ“ or quite the opposite and you can count yourself among the keenest of mathletes. You might be linguistically gifted and blessed with eloquence, or more visual with a bent for leaving expert doodles in your wake. Those varied smarts also inevitably dictate the things we excel at. Harvard psychologist and professor Howard Gardner, who's given us the now popular theory of multiple intelligences, posits that smarts actually manifest themselves in many forms (as opposed to the standard and tired measures of an IQ test).

There is no one singular way to be smart or to learn. Regardless, imaginary Einstein still makes a good point. Side note: Mudskippers (Periophthalmus barbarus) are amphibious fish that have been known to climb trees, and some fish fly. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. There is a popular quote often (and almost certainly incorrectly) attributed to Albert Einstein that you've no doubt seen floating about: Everybody is a genius.

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