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Are You A Genius Or You A Complete Bozo.

Life is short, the Art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience delusive, judgment difficult.                                                              "Hippocrates" In 1983, American psychologist Howard Gardner famously speculated that people have more than one kind of intelligence. In his classic book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner identified 7 forms of intelligence: musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily -kinesthetic, interpersonal, and naturalistic. He later suggested that existential and moral intelligence might also make the list. Gardener's theory was interesting in its own right, but it also gives us a platform for further speculation. Might there be other forms of intelligence that go beyond Gardner's original list? In particular, health advocates might be inclined to wonder if there's such a thing as lifestyle intelligence or lifestyle IQ. Many of us have been coming to g