If you were disappointed in your IQ score, take heart. These tests, although revered by the general community as measures of intelligence, may not provide a complete picture of how smart you are. In fact, if you’re not linguistically talented, skilled at math, or able to commit obscure facts to memory, you may not perform very well on these traditional tests.

But that doesn’t mean you aren’t smart. In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, proposed the revolutionary "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" in his book Frames of Mind. Gardner’s theory is that we all exhibit, to some degree, seven different types of intelligence, including: