Disclaimer: These are all suggestions. Many people have multiple intelligences, some of which might cancel out each other’s deficiencies. Each intelligence type could be present but express itself differently in your character and behavior. We are not here to restrict but to guide. In the end, you can do whatever you enjoy.
Identifying, understanding, classifying – out in the wilderness, nothing can stop these individuals from finding the truth about nature – this is natural intelligence. Without them, we would be far from learning anything about the way our world evolves.
Let’s have a closer look at these individuals’ interests, strengths, and challenges and find out whether you’re one of them.
1. Strengths:
A naturalistically intelligent individual is gifted with a strong understanding of nature. Whether it’s different patterns, small differences between species and their behaviour, or the interactions between organisms and their environment, a naturalistic intelligent individual is able to understand the world’s natural dynamics.Their strong understanding of nature helps them to recognize flora and fauna and differentiate between species. There is no detail too small for them to overlook. This is crucial for our understanding of evolution today. It’s the small differences that first allowed us to understand evolutionary adaptation.
Their detailed view enables them to identify and classify new traits and characteristics in organisms and connect them to existing ones. Yet another trait allowing us to better understand the world we live in.
Naturalistically intelligent individuals have a strong environmental awareness. This ability is part of their excellent understanding of nature and the dynamics between environments and their surroundings. As a result, these individuals often engage in environmentalism and come up with ideas to help keep nature safe and alive. Especially in today’s age, imagining the importance of this talent is not hard to understand.
2. Areas for Improvement:
Activities that do not involve the natural world can be challenging for a naturalistically intelligent individual. These could involve numerical, spatial, linguistic, social, or any other tasks. Overall, this could show as a lack of concentration when facing themes other than natural patterns.Are you recognizing yourself or some parts of you? Then congratulations on identifying your or one of your intelligence types. With that, you’ve accomplished step one of your journey: determining your intelligence. But, even if that’s wonderful to hear, you may be asking, what should I do now? Let’s head over to step two: how to embrace your strengths and work on your weak spots.
3. How to Refine and Embrace Strengths:
As a naturalistically intelligent individual, your number one tip to refine your strengths is spending time in nature regularly. You need to experience the outer world to enhance your understanding and relationship toward it.Take notes of what you see outside. Maybe you want to buy a little notebook to keep everything you acknowledge in one place. Through writing down what you see, smell, and feel, you’ll become more aware of nature. As well, you’ll learn to notice greater detail every time you practice this way.
Search for a path you want to walk and start exploring. Take notes on the same path for different times you went and compare them. Have you seen something new, has something changed, or did something else strike your attention and focus this time?
On stormy days, learn about different species and ecosystems. You need this knowledge for comparison to better understand your observations. When learning about different ecosystems or species, you might find one you feel very interested in. Who knows, maybe one of them turns into your passion and exploring it becomes your goal in life.
Another way to get to know nature better is by participating in conservation projects. You’ll learn about the characteristics of different ecosystems and challenges in interacting with them without causing damage. As well, you’ll pick up new ways to save our environment. Do something good while learning.
Lastly, to apply what you’ve learned about saving our environment, you need to stay updated with environmental issues. This is necessary for you to come up with ideas to work against them. As well, knowledge of developments causing environmental issues can be connected to changing dynamics in nature, making it essential to understand our world’s transformation.
4. How to Work on Areas for Improvement:
The most basic approach is to simply engage in urban or indoor activities, such as refining your technological skills and exploring non-nature-related subjects. Very straightforward, but in the case of a naturally intelligent person, it might be of bigger interest to understand why that is important.Let’s say you start working on your technological skills. This will help your natural intelligence in the end as well. Technology is nowadays most versatile resource. If you understand its potential and discover different ways of using it for your research, you can enhance your efficiency and therefore your impact extremely.
So, to phrase that in a general sense: your type of intelligence connects to nature, to the world we live in, meaning it involves everything we know. Engage in seemingly unrelated subjects and find their connection to nature. Use that to unfold your potential and find every truth our outer world has to offer.
Now that we’ve evaluated your strengths and areas for improvement, let’s apply all that to the real world. First of all, want to make money? Want to have fun? Here are some jobs and hobbies that align very well with this type of intelligence.
5. Jobs Aligning with This Intelligence Type:
Jobs compatible with this type of intelligence are the ones dragging you outside. Whether it’s a profession in the field of biology or geology, being a farmer or environmentalist, or even helping animals as a veterinarian, being in contact with nature and animals aligns with your natural talents.6. Hobbies Aligning with This Intelligence Type:
As for hobbies, you could enjoy gardening, hiking, or camping, once again being outside. Maybe try to take a camera with you and go bird watching or engage in nature photography. With that, you can capture what you love and keep it close to you wherever you go. Go on and give it a try!Now you have a complete guide on what defines your intelligence, your strengths, and areas you can improve, the jobs and hobbies you can engage in – but, what now? You can refine your strengths, but for what? A job you need to train for years? You can improve areas you might have some deficiencies in, but how is that helpful? What benefit does this knowledge provide just here and now? Let’s have a look at the effect of naturalistic intelligence in everyday life and its personal and societal impact.
8. Naturalistic Intelligence in Everyday Life:
In everyday life, high scores in naturalistic intelligence have the potential to keep you fit. How? Well, we’ve already said that you might enjoy hiking as a hobby. Hiking is a great way to distance yourself from stress and get some fresh air. This impacts your mental well-being positively. As well, hiking is a physical activity that keeps you fit.When engaging in gardening, you can start planting your own fruits and vegetables. Therefore, your food is always fresh, natural, and healthy. Besides that, being able to take good care of plants shows your considerate, caring, and mindful nature. Being around plants is believed to have several positive psychological benefits, such as enhanced creativity and stress reduction – yet another thing potentially enhancing mental well-being.
Your environmental impact shows even in everyday life. Whether it’s recycling or advocating for conservation, you are part of making everyday changes that influence all life and the future of every single one of us.
9. Societal and Personal Impact:
To society, you are essential to understanding our world. You are the ones opening eyes when it comes to conservation efforts and environmental issues, the future, or when talking about evolution and dynamics. Understanding the nature of our world is mandatory to recognize once something’s changing. This is why we need you to guide us when it comes to interacting with our planet.Personally, you hold the power to a greater connection to nature. You see the world in a different light, you see the true beauty of our planet. Use your connection to feel peace and relaxation when going outside and never stop exploring. Stay inquisitive and curious. You are bound to the very foundation of our life – nature, its flora and fauna, its resources and secrets. There are endless things to discover and protect.
Understand that what seems natural to you has been lost in today’s modern age. Environmental awareness and the love for nature have been lost in big cities and new technologies. Remember that we need you, you who still contains this ability, to open our eyes.