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"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."                                                                    "John Muir" Every now and then a word creeps into our language and begins to replicate like a fungus, invading every available corner of our consciousness. The word takes on a life of its own and begins to infect our conversations and weaken our powers. One such word is wellness. The word itself can be traced back to the 1950's. In the beginning, it was proposed as a push-back against Western medicine and its mechanical approach to the human body. Critics declared that "health is more than the absence of disease" and advanced a new concept that was supposed to be more complete and holistic. Health just wasn't good enough anymore. But as popular as it has become, wellness is a we

Life is short, the Art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience delusive, judgment difficult.                                                              "Hippocrates" In 1983, American psychologist Howard Gardner famously speculated that people have more than one kind of intelligence. In his classic book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner identified 7 forms of intelligence: musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily -kinesthetic, interpersonal, and naturalistic. He later suggested that existential and moral intelligence might also make the list. Gardener's theory was interesting in its own right, but it also gives us a platform for further speculation. Might there be other forms of intelligence that go beyond Gardner's original list? In particular, health advocates might be inclined to wonder if there's such a thing as lifestyle intelligence or lifestyle IQ. Many of us have been coming to g