Good morning wonderful people — especially those joining from my LinkedIn newsletter.

Today I’m beginning a powerful, eye-opening series on the Nine Types of Intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner (Frames of Mind, 1983) — and why this model is far more accurate, humane and future-ready than our outdated obsession with “IQ scores” and STEM-only measures.

We keep talking about Artificial Intelligence, but I feel we haven’t even understood Human Intelligence properly.

So let’s get the fundamentals right.

Today we begin with Musical Intelligence — not as talent, but as a cognitive style, a brain orientation, and a pattern-based learning architecture that shapes how a child thinks, learns, remembers, empathizes, and even detects truth from tone.

This episode isn't just for parents.

It’s for psychologists, child-cou ...