People mostly choose a very specific area of expertise to work on, what do you mean by the "need to do everything" part?

The thing about MI is that you don't have just one - it's having 8 of them at various levels. So the speaker phrases it 'x has a y intelligence', but actually it's more like 'x's dominant intelligence is y'. So you may feel you don't have any of those much more developed than others - and it's fine.

@@agatacichocka4695 Is there some evidence to support the MI theory? I tried to search but didn't really find anything. Also if most of these traits aren't correlated in anyway why call them intelligence? it just feels a little misleading

@@sam2725 Well, you can read about the findings in the field of neurology to support the theory - even in some books written by Gardner himself. The evidence is usually linking specific skills with certain brain areas. An interesting example might be that contrary to common opinion, people who can well imitate the sounds of a language that is not native to them, aren't necessarily good at music /playing an instrument. Brain research supports it - different brain areas respond to human speech and musical tones. But to be completely fair, I don't know if the theory is "officially approved". I work in education and in my field, it is widely accepted and used to boost learning. To answer the latter part of your question, the name "intelligence" was given deliberately, as "talent" doesn't seem to have a serious, scientific connotation; perhaps as a response to Intelligence Quotient (IQ) as well.