Intellectual Wellbeing

What is Intellectual Wellbeing

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Our intellectual wellbeing is our ability to learn, experience, and utilize intellectual capacities through creative and stimulating mental activities so as to expand our knowledge and skills. Our intellectual wellbeing includes critical thinking, stimulating curiosity, problem-solving, reflection, self-knowledge, and creativity. It also includes the ability to recognize biases, helpful and unhelpful patterns of thinking, as well as manage one’s inner dialogue and negative thoughts.  Intellectual wellbeing is a lifelong development. With intellectual wellbeing we can improve cognition, experience a more stimulating life, develop personal values and opinions, be open-minded, have clearer thinking and improve our concentration and memory.

 

Ways to improve Intellectual Wellbeing

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• Have a growth mindset and learn something new that is outside of your academic or career field (a new language)

• Be willing to explore new ideas

• Try creative expression

• Read for pleasure

• Attend a play, museum exhibit or poetry reading

 

Sources:

https://wellness.huhs.harvard.edu/your-wellbeing

https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering-wellness-program/nine-dimensions-wellness#emotional