Existential Intelligence
Dr. Howard Gardiner continues to expand his formulation of human intelligences with existential intelligence, the ability to be sensitive to, or have the capacity for, conceptualizing or tackling deeper or larger questions about human existence.
“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction/humor, 1979.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction/humor, 1979.
These are the requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to admit your mistakes and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German statesman and author, 1749-1842) on the good life.
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to admit your mistakes and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German statesman and author, 1749-1842) on the good life.