Vitality Central - Intelligence Growth

Emotional Intelligence: The Basics

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:36:07 -0600

by: Michael G. Rayel, MD

There’s so much talk about emotional intelligence and how it can promote personal and business success. What is it really? What are its basic tenets?

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to recognize, understand, and manage one’s emotions and that of others. This “intelligent” concept focuses on the role of emotion in our daily lives and how it affects our perception, reasoning, and behavior.

Higher Intelligence Through Music

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:31:34 -0600

by: Steve Gillman

You Are What You Listen To

Can music really help you think better? Yes, according to the research that has been done so far.

Listening to, and participating in music creates new neural pathways in your brain that stimulate creativity. Studies have shown that music actually trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. There was a study at the University of California, for example, about 10 years ago.

What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences? Part 2: Cultural Influence

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:26:09 -0600

by: Michele R. Acosta

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences developed as he worked with brain injured adults and autistic children. He identified distinct portions of the brain that control specific human abilities or talents like analysis, classification, speech, self-awareness, etc. He has identified eight distinct abilities that he refers to as "intelligences": verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and the naturalist. In addition to the biological basis for these intelligences, Gardner also places great emphasis on cultural influences that may impact the development of each intelligence.

What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences? Part 1: Biological Basis

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:19:47 -0600

by: Michele R. Acosta

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on the premise that each individual's intelligence is composed of multiple "intelligences," each of which has its own independent operating system within the brain. These intelligences include: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.

Music & Intelligence: Will Listening to Music Make You Smarter?

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:04:59 -0600

by: Duane Shinn

Will listening to music make you smarter? Will learning to play a musical instrument make your brain grow larger than normal?

Questions like these ones have been popping up all over the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific journals either.

In recent times the media has been fascinated by the research surrounding brain development and music, eagerly reporting on the latest studies to the delight of the music-loving parents of young children.

Play Is Serious Business For Childrens' Intelligence

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:58:03 -0600

by: Jon Weaver

Too many parents consider play as simply a means of diverting and distracting their children. Playthings are often seen as a means of keeping children happy, rewarding them, keeping them out of mischief, and giving parents free time.

Not often enough do parents think of play and toys as fundamental aspects of a child's education, as a means through which children learn to understand the world around them, and as the primary method by which children acquire many basic skills.

Feel Those Feelings and Develop Emotional Intelligence

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:46:18 -0600

by: Adam Eason

There is an old joke about a man who is walking home along the street in the early hours of a weekend and he sees another man, who is obviously very drunk, on his hands and knees, searching for something. “What are you looking for?” he asks the drunked man. “My house keys” the man replies. “Where did you drop them?” he asks. “Two streets away” he slurs. “Why aren’t you looking there then”, he asks, puzzled. “Because the light’s much better here.”

Succes And Business Intelligence Hand In Hand

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:39:09 -0600

by: Derek Gardner

A business without success in some degree is not good. Success comes from either growth in the number of customers or in the numbers of sales you do per customer. Business Intelligence can assist a company to gain new customers and keep hold of old ones. And by keeping old customers longer time you earn more money from them because of more sales to them.

Business intelligence can be shortened to BI. A definition of business intelligence is that it is a method of collecting information on your business. Information is enhanced into knowledge. Business Intelligence can present every business a precise idea of its customer’s requirements. Businesses that have huge amounts of information about their customer’s can take action upon that information. Businesses implementing BI add knowledge and understanding of a customer’s desires and decision-making process. Also the financial, cultural and technological trend of the customer is revealed. By using businesses intelligence, businesses choose either short term or long goals. BI helps a company accomplish those goals.

Success And Business Intelligence Hand In Hand

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:39:09 -0600

by: Derek Gardner

Big 4 Power the Future of Consulting Services with Business Intelligence (BI)

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:32:36 -0600

by: Neil More

Business Intelligence at Big Four firms enables Consultants to deal with business processes. BI is an acronym for Business Intelligence. BI Consultants at Big 4 firms combine business and technology expertise to understand various business processes.

Big4 firms use Business Intelligence to help organizations in the analysis and assessment of their business environments. Typically, Big 4 BI consultants use application software and related technologies to gather, organize, refine and distribute the information/data. Business Intelligence consultants at Big 4 firms design data mappings between various systems, develop scripts for data mappings and build modules and business processes. From design, implementation to support, Big 4 BI consultants handle all strategies pertaining to the Business Intelligence processes.

Intelligence Quotient - Increase Yours Today

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:28:39 -0600

by: Steve Gillman

Would you like to increase your intelligence quotient or IQ? You can use brain power exercises and techniques designed to help you long-term, but what if you want a quick brain fix right now? Maybe you have an important meeting coming up, or a crucial test, or just a chess game you don't want to lose. If you want fast results, and not an argument about the definition of intelligence, try some of the following.

Instructional DVD's Help Promote Mental Action

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:38:58 -0600

by Paul Hegarty

In the domain of the fine arts more than elsewhere the creations are intimately connected with mental action and are distinctly marked as products of mind. Music, vocal and instrumental, the single singer or the multitude in the chorus, the one instrument or the great orchestra, the country boy whistling among the woods and hills or the grand opera in magnificent halls -- music everywhere, in all its varieties and types, is a product of mental activity and is a most subtle as well as most powerful expression of the mind of the composer. The dreams of the sculptor which have been revealed in marble, those of the painter in the figures on his canvas, the beautiful in all artistic creations or expressions, are the direct result of the finest thinking of the finest minds. What a world of them there is in existence! Yet the crumbling ruins of the past point to greater worlds of them which have been destroyed by man and time.

Jazz Up Your English with Fresh and Lively Idioms

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:33:12 -0600

Linda Correli

English language is loaded with non-standard phrases, which rooted so deeply in its vocabulary that at times cannot be distinguished from the accepted Standard English terms. On the one hand, they jazz up the language of native speakers, making it very lively, natural, and authentic.

However, on the other hand, non-standard phrases make a pile of understanding hassles to English learners, who helplessly try to gain an understanding of all intricate words and phrases, invented by the language speakers impromptu.

This really stands for some reason, because the most difficult aspect of learning another language is not a great bulk of its vocabulary, but an extensive number of non-standard phrases.

Online Tools Make Translation (Chinese/English) Easier

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:27:33 -0600

Issac Chu

Today we will introduce several online tools that our team frequent use. These all may help to do translations, especially in Chinese (traditional and simplified) and English.

1. Google

http://www.google.com.hk

Yes. The first one to introduce is Google. Google is not only a search engine, it is also a simple but good enough translation tool. In the search box, type "fy apple" and press Search. You can obtain 蘋果 (apple in chinese). Similarly, type fy 橙, you can get Orange in return.

2. Yahoo! Dictionary

http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/