Question

According to Gardner, extraordinary individuals are "distinguished less by their impressive raw power than by their ability to identify their ______ and exploit them."

Answer 1

According to Gardner, extraordinary individuals are "distinguished less by their impressive raw power than by their ability to identify their strengths  and exploit them.

Explanation:

Howard Gardner was well known for the theory of multiple intelligences. He was an educational reformist from 1980’s. He had a research group that researched on Human cognition with a special focus on Arts.

Here Gardner focuses of how all men are gifted with specific intelligences. He affirms that while educating children it cannot be uniform each person has a unique intelligence which should be identified and nurtured.

He assures that every human has eight intelligences and suggested there are possibilities of the ninth intelligence named as “existentialist intelligence”.