Initiative of multiple intelligences was actually developed in the 1980`s by a Harvard professor named Howard Gardner. Gardner recognized that everyone learns in different ways for the reason that everyone has their own unique blend of intelligence. Gardner determined that there were seven different types of intelligence. Each person has a different combination of these seven intelligences, which work together to form overall intelligence. Depending upon your genetic makeup and the environment in which you were raised, your intelligences could be quite different from that of your best friend or classmate.