Mitch Schwartz | Life/Work

🧠💗🦸‍♂️ Our 3 Intelligences Today we'll delve into the much overlooked idea that we have more than 1 intelligence. Let's start with the obvious one...   🧠 The Brain Culturally, Western society values analytical intellect highly. One of the reasons is that it is strongly associated with control. If we know what something is, and we know all of the trivia about it, then we can predict what it will do. That helps us feel less fearful.  Example: if you know what kind of insect you are looking at, you know if it is likely to bite you. This concept generalizes into most aspects of our lives. One issue here is that analytical intelligence is low bandwidth. Analytical intelligence tend to come to us in words. I'm looking at a tree right now; you've read the word tree and probably imagine one, but it's not the same tree I'm looking at. If I wanted to describe that tree to you so that you could form an accurate image of it in your mind, it would probably take pages, ma

Inner Peace sounds great. We tend to be pretty aware of outer peace, which we know because most people are easily disturbed by noises, smells, or moving visuals in our environments. What's incredible is that most of us have a neurotic person chattering non-stop in our heads. Worse, we listen to all of its advice, without even wondering about its track record. If this was an external person, who was always getting us riled up, whispering to us in the middle of the night about everything worrisome, and so often shouting to us about anything but the task at hand, we would never accept their calls. Since it's always been this way though, it seems normal to us. Lately, I've been acutely aware of the voice in my head —the one so many of us have; it's been there as long as I can remember. When I was in my teens it felt more like 2 voices: my analytical and emotional selves. I experienced dialogues between different parts of my mind. There's an analogy tha