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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.)
"...4. Bodily kinesthetic intelligence
It doesn't seem that the use of your physical self is an area where you excel. Those who are smart in the kinesthetic (or movement-related) sense are good at work which involves using their physical body. This includes handling tools and vehicles as well as work which involves making precise and skillful body movement.
Athletes are also strong in this area, as are models, actors and others where poise and graceful body movements are important. In the new economy physical work is undergoing great change and has already been replaced in many areas by technology, so the fact that you are not confident in this area is probably not a disadvantage.
The following section looks at your level of ability in physical work, tool and vehicle handling, and sport and athletics.
4a. Physical ability
You seem to be reasonably confident in the use of tools, as well as commercial vehicles and heavy machinery. Tool and vehicle handling is an area of work that is likely to continue to experience change and uncertainty in the future. So even though you probably have the ability to work in this area, unless it is a particular area of interest you may be best to focus your career on another area.
The reason is that tool and vehicle handling is another area of the economy that is being 'informated'. This means that the emphasis has shifted from hands-on work to monitoring a process – often with the help of information technology.
This trend is likely to continue in the future, creating turbulence for those who work in this area. You seem to be reasonably confident in the use of tools, as well as commercial vehicles and heavy machinery.
Tool and vehicle handling is an area of work that is likely to continue to experience change and uncertainty in the future. So even though you probably have the ability to work in this area, unless it is a particular area of interest you may be best to focus your career on another area.
The reason is that tool and vehicle handling is another area of the economy that is being 'informated'. This means that the emphasis has shifted from hands-on work to monitoring a process – often with the help of information technology.
This trend is likely to continue in the future, creating turbulence for those who work in this area.
As far as work which involves people using tools is concerned, if it can be automated, sooner or later it will be. This obviously creates many situations where change is inevitable.
While there will be work operating the new systems, with automation there tends to be fewer positions than when the work was done manually. (Having said that there are still some opportunities for manual workers with specialized skills in some areas of the economy.)
The past half a century has seen, in historical terms, a radical transformation. Less than 50 years ago physical work of some type was the most common way that breadwinners earned their living. But over recent decades the amount of physical work on offer has declined markedly and continues to do so. In the place of humans doing physical work are computer-controlled machines capable of increasingly sophisticated tasks.
Instead of using their body to do the work, smart workers are making the switch to controlling the computers that control the machines. This is what we mean when we say that work is being "informated".
Rather than doing physical work themselves, workers in the new economy are more likely to be using information technology to monitor machines, which do the physical work.
The message is clear. Unless your passion is physical labor, then you are much better off concentrating on other areas.
4b. Tool and vehicle handling ability
Naturalist intelligence is what we draw on when making our way in the big wide world. There are two main aspects to this. Firstly, how we function in nature with plants and animals and secondly our level of 'smarts' in the commercial environment of human
As far as work which involves people using tools is concerned, if it can be automated, sooner or later it will be. This obviously creates many situations where change is inevitable.
While there will be work operating the new systems, with automation there tends to be fewer positions than when the work was done manually. Vehicle handling is also likely to be affected by technology and change in the future. Like all other sectors of the economy it will become increasingly reliant on information systems. This will require drivers to become skilled in the use of these computers.
Interpersonal abilities are also likely to become more important, with customer service and the ability to work as part of a team being of particular importance. In the past good communication skills were not required by those running heavy machinery and vehicles, but in the future work will place more and more demands on these areas.
4c. Athletic ability
You don't seem to have confidence in your athletic ability. However, this probably won't have much bearing on your career. To be good enough at your chosen sport to earn a living from playing it, takes an exceptional amount of talent, and hours refining your abilities.
For most people, even those with considerable talent, sport and athletics is a leisure activity rather than a career.
Having said that there are many career opportunities within the various parts of the sports industry. With the right motivation you could still use your other abilities to advantage in parts of this industry."
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