Here is why knowing your preferred learning style is so important.

Traditionally, academic subjects have been taught in ways that largely emphasise two of these intelligences – Linguistic and Logical Mathematical – through lectures and logically formatted books and courses. So students who are naturally strong in these forms of intelligence will perform comparatively well in school.

And since Mathematical and Linguistic Intelligences are also the basis for IQ tests, IQ tests have become reasonably good predictors of school success – because that's the way children will be taught! It is a self-fulfilling prophecy – and indeed a self-perpetuating system as teachers will also have done well in the same school system.

But a moment's reflection will show that IQ tests are not necessarily good predictors of success in relationships, of economic success, of happiness or success in life generally.