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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 neither a strength nor a weakness. 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

You seem to be reasonably confident in your general visual spatial abilities. You seem to be quite confident both at using your sense of direction to navigate and at stacking and storing three dimensional objects.

Your reasonable level of confidence with navigation and your sense of direction indicates that you don't have difficulty finding your way about.

This ability is used by workers in the transportation industries, like drivers and pilots.

However, the basic human ability for navigation is becoming less important as technology begins to take over the navigation work.

Even those masters of navigation – taxi drivers – now have access to navigation systems which work out the best route for them to follow.

In most cases reasonable navigational abilities will be neither a help, nor a hindrance for your career.

The fact that you are reasonably 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."

Reference: Free choosing a career test

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