Celebrating Bloggers Who Use More Intelligences

When I attend sports events and folks make a great play everyone celebrates. In my journey around the blogosphere in the last couple of weeks, I noted intriguing ways bloggers get more of their multiple intelligences up and running. Here're the posts I'm celebrating this week...

Logical Mathematical Who would have guessed that the height of the ceiling where you work can affect your creativity and focus. Frank Roche shares new information from the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Behavior:

"When a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly,” said Meyers-Levy. “They might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, whereas a person in a room with an 8-foot ceiling will be more likely to focus on specifics."

How might you make adjustments for more focus where you work?

Interpersonal or Social Intelligence David Armano practices what he preaches about conversations. In fact, David believes that we can't participate well in conversations without being willing to be quiet and listen. If we go back far enough, according to David, the conversation virus began to spread...

If we are to give credit—it belongs to the first individual who decided to listen before choosing to speak (or grunt). Now all we have to do is unlearn some of the things we've been taught as professional adults and move forward.

David models great strategies to provide voice for others in your blog. What strategies do you use to create more voice for your readers?

Naturalistic Intelligence Most of us may not realize that we're contaminating our home environments even more than the world outside our door. Check out GreenBurbia's post on common household items that are hazardous to your health. What an eyeopener!

Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence Story Brings Brands to Life. C.B. Whittemore shares depth found in the art of story. Here's just a quick overview...

S-tudy the audience
T-ailor the experience
O-rchestrate the details
R-elate
Y-ield long term relationships

There's so much depth here that you'll gain great new strategies by checking out the details.

Spatial Intelligence Scott McArthur shares an amazing visualization tool and tells us about its capabilities....

The categorisers have thoroughly sliced the categorising! For instance, they've color-coded their categories: data,metaphor, concept, strategy, information, and compound visualisation techniques. As if that were not enough to spark your brain, the creators also provide clues as to whether the model works best for convergent or divergent thinking, and whether it is more for an overview vs. detailed perspective.

Play with this one - it really delivers!

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence Bob Glaza's now in training for a Bike Ride Across Iowa. Bob last reported that he had 300 miles under his belt. On another note last weekend Ellen Weber and I participated in a Rotary District Conference golf tournament along with Ruth Cronkrite and Maureen Hall to place first in women's competition. When exercise is fun it's so much easier to get my heart pumping harder! And, of course, that supplies the brain with needed doses of oxygen! That's a real secret for people who want to keep their noodle at peak performance.

Intrapersonal Intelligence When we dream, we need to connect to realities, too, according to Joanna Young. She's making some of her goals reality by going for a two-week getaway at a book festival in Scotland. Now why didn't I think of that as a great way to enhance my writing? Hmmmm.....

Musical Intelligence Want to fine tune your blog with some upbeat sounds? You might enjoy Jeremy Jacobs' jazzy playlist to move your brain waves fairly fast as you write your blog post today.

So many of you are tapping more brain in your blogging... I hope to catch you at your best and celebrate your unique ideas with others.