Background Information

Intrapersonal intelligence involves self-awareness, self-reflection, and being in touch with the inner world of our individual being. As far as we know, human beings are the only creatures that possess self-consciousness, the unique ability to step back from ourselves and reflect on the self and to learn from that reflection.

According to Howard Gardner, intrapersonal intelligence is an inward-directed intelligence that is concerned with knowledge about the identity of self. It includes the core capacities of concentration, mindfulness, evaluation of one's thinking patterns, being aware of and expressing different feelings, and understanding of a sense of self.