Gratitude Challenge - Day 9 (Human Intelligence)

"Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have and you will attract more good things. If you just study this one word "gratitude" every day for a month, I guarantee that your life will shift." --Bob Proctor

Join me on this one-month journey to practise "gratitude" on a daily basis and see how it would impact your life. You could keep a journal or blog of your own, and post your comments below.

For Day 9, let's be thankful for Human Intelligence. 

Photo by Jason Blackeye on Unsplash

The development and progress of human intelligence is mind-blowing and perhaps taken for granted.

All the cooked food that we have been enjoying is due to the breakthrough discoveries and harnessing of fire (e.g., gas stove) and electricity (e.g., microwave oven). With the flick of a switch, we could turn on the lights in our room with candles out of sight.

Can you imagine taking a horse-drawn carriage to work instead of driving a car or taking the train or bus? And, taking a ship to overseas destinations which would mean a voyage of several days instead of jet planes which bring you to your destination within a matter of several hours?

Who would have imagined that we could now have a mobile device that combines telephone, diary, camera, radio, music player and computer held in the palm of our hand. We have certainly come a long way from carrying, clubs and swords in our hands and evolved from caveman and barbarians to users of sophisticated modern technology. 

We have advanced so far that we now have to make a distinction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence as man-made devices and robots are programmed to perform functions and tasks automatically and keep learning to adapt and grow.

Btw, you may wish to check out your dominant intelligences based on the following 9 types which an American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener has put forth in 1983:

1. Naturalist (nature smart)

2. Musical (sound smart)

3. Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart)

4. Existential (life smart)

5. Interpersonal (people smart)

6. Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart)

7. Linguistic (word smart)

8. Intra-personal (self smart)

9. Spatial (picture smart)

Thank you for reading Daily Refreshing!