I disagree to a certain point here. Yes you are right I knew beforehand I did upvote 4 upvote or follow 4 follow this was not really the way, my greed got the better of me.
The emotional and intellectual understanding/ intelligence I have learned about on a Vipassana retreat. I mgiht used it wrong or a bad example. They used it as an example for the meditation. On an intellectual level you might understand meditation is good for you on an emotinal level you have to learn it since meditating for 12 hours a day doesnt feel very good at first.
But it was the first thing which came to my mind when I read your article.