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The Multiple Intelligence theory opens up doors to radically reconsider what human intelligence is. Isn't intelligence what we humans do? To be more precise, intelligence is whatever humans can do well. I'm talking specifically about positive abilities. For example, the ability to ignore people and things is a negative ability. Although one can do it really well, it is not because one does something but rather one fails to do something. In terms of positive ability and conceiving human intelligence broadly, if one can count the number of sand, taste very minute flavors, or see words in colors then one can be said to be intelligent in that area. Are crazy people intelligent then: People who see things we do not normally see and feel emotions we do not normally feel? After all, they do what they do better than many other people.