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FROM CHAPTER TWO: 'HOW ARE YOU SMART?"
(Note: this excerpt is taken from someone's personalized ebook. The content of your book would be personalized from your own responses to the FPYC questionnaire which you can begin at the top of this page.)
"...3. Visual spatial intelligence
It seems that for you visual spatial intelligence is one of your areas of real strength.
People with high levels of visual spatial intelligence have one or more of three main capacities.
Firstly they have a good sense of direction and are good at arranging objects for storage or display.
Secondly they can perceive images in their minds and from these create original design and artworks.
Thirdly spatially intelligent people often have an excellent mechanical sense, understanding instinctively how things fit together and work.
Let's now look at your level of ability in these three areas: general visual spatial ability, art and design ability and technical mechanical ability.
3a. General visual spatial ability
It seems that you have very strong general visual spatial abilities. You are very confident both at using your sense of direction to navigate and at stacking and storing three dimensional objects.
Your high level of confidence with navigation and your sense of direction indicates that you have strong natural ability to find your way around in the world.
This ability suggests that you would excel in work which involves the transportation of people and goods: like drivers, pilots and couriers.
The basic human ability for navigation is becoming less important as technology begins to take over navigation work. However your ability could be employed to identify new opportunities in this area.
If your work is not related to transportation, then it's likely that your strong navigational abilities will neither help, nor hinder your career.
The fact that you are very confident at stacking and storing things indicates that you have the ability to visualize physical space in three dimensions.
This can be very useful in warehousing and storage work, and, in conjunction with a range of other skills and abilities, can be applied to fields like 3D animation and sculpture.
3b. Art and design ability
You seem to have reasonable confidence in your design and artistic abilities.
This is good news because in the new economy, as management guru Tom Peters says "Design matters!" Nowadays there is more emphasis on innovation and things that set your product apart from the competition.
All work that involves conceiving something in your mind and reproducing that image as a work of art or a design draws on your art and design abilities.
Fields like architecture, retailing, marketing, art dealing, product design, graphic design, landscape design, interior design and fashion design all make significant demands on this ability.
With at least a reasonable level of art and design ability, you could do well in some of these areas.
But even if your work is not directly related to one of these fields, developing an appreciation for the aesthetic and design aspects of products can have positive implications for your career.
These days the time between conception and obsolescence of a product is much shorter, placing more emphasis on design abilities.
Simply looking around you and taking notice of the design and visual aspects of the world will help you develop your ability even further.
3c. Technical mechanical ability
You appear to have a certain degree of confidence with your technical mechanical abilities.
If you take something apart you probably have a reasonable chance of putting it back together again! While these abilities are very useful in many situations, there has been a reduction of demand for these abilities in the new economy. The result is a lot of change and uncertainty – with much more to come – for those whose careers are based around these abilities. A lot of technical mechanical work has been "informated".
This means that the emphasis has shifted from hands-on technical and mechanical work to monitoring a process – often with the help of information technology.
And because monitoring a process is often a team operation, you need to make sure that you have good interpersonal skills.
The ability to have an empathy with your fellow workers and customers is becoming more sought after.
Good basic abilities in language and the logical mathematical area are also increasingly important.
If your abilities in these other areas are also reasonably strong, then technical mechanical work in the new economy would be well within your capabilities.
Otherwise it would pay to look at other areas where the opportunities are better."
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