Reflection on multiple intelligences

I've often realise a hierarchy since I started school at 7 in subjects. It's not uncommon to feel inadequate simply because when we measure ourselves to the standards of an academic world, there are only few who seem to be the  creme de la creme  while most of us are 'average'.

This, simply has to change. What a lot of us fail to realise is that school is apparently a field for those who are academically-minded, such as being advantaged at number/rational or writing. In an analogy by Sir Ken Robinson, he compares  education of students almost like production of eggs where :

"Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. They are given standardised tests at set points and compared with each other before being sent out onto the market. "

Even with schools emerging with new systems to emphasise on the importance of other intelligences such as the arts and music, it will still take a while before the stereotypical mindset of being better in the maths and sciences is banished as I assume, they are possibly what the world needs the most at the moment.

We are all encouraged to follow our dreams and passions but realistically, we will have to weigh in the possibilities and chances such as "will this job be steady career path?" or "is this field of study simply too popular?". I suppose I'm rather pessimistic when it comes to this matter but before these talks, I realise the importance of finding our own strengths too.

I've recently been having a hard time simply thinking of a reply to, "what do you want to do in the future?" because honestly , I have no idea. How could you decide what you want to do for 2/3 of your life at this point? What if I made a wrong choice?

I guess the start is simply by observing myself and the way I am. I've always been more of an introvert and judging by the amount of MBTI tests i take, I had known that I was interpersonal but I never knew I was body smart too apparently.

By observing one self and not needing to confine our individuality to the standards of society, I think that is freedom. Intelligence is an always will be a concept, and it is up to us to define it for ourselves as Einstein had once said:

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”