Types of intelligence: hands-on

摘要

Many of you have had this experience - asked to serve on an advisory board of this or that. It's a compliment. Geez... they must think I know something important! I was asked to be on an advisory board for a national technical institute. When I got there, I found more fellow members of the HVAC industry that I'd seen since the last free lunch at a wholesale distributor. Sure enough, they fed us, sat us down, congratulated us for being the influencers of a crucially important industry, and they started telling about their school. Their big selling point was, "It's hands on! We have lots of thick text books that the students must buy (for thousands of dollars), but the training is hands on!"