I tend to go by how effective one is at bringing that intelligence into the world.
I generally feel very below average and with the above criteria that seems justified. If I am intelligent in any sense, it's in ways that aren't effective in most situations.
I've always been skeptical of multiple intelligence theories but I think they stem from a confusion over emotional stability, I think without that stability, that intelligence is difficult to make use of.Although while I also acknowledge that there are exceptions throughout history, I think for those above the average, I think this broadly remains true.
And if I was to pigeon hole a type of intelligence, it would be the kind that manifests in puerile forms of academia, celebrating what is abstracted into obscurity, without a tie back to effecting an actual realm of existence.
I'm more than irritated by the "tortured genius" archetype that many seem to adopt to cover up the pain of knowing that, for all their intelligence, they are functionally useless to themselves and others in most practical situations.
If a person can verbalise an intelligent idea, but only brings it into being in an ineffective fashion, how intelligent can that person be?