This knowledge has been used by therapists to improve a patient's self-control over stress and other debilitating states. Patterns, likewise, are to be found in body movements, objects in space, and words. Common features in language such as these have been used to reconstruct the evolution of languages and the history of peoples. Even when none is intended, patterns emerge. The familiar nighttime constellations were discovered by the ancients looking up and making spatial connections among stars.
Baseball is a game of hits, runs, catches, and pitches.
Each one of the original seven intelligences draws upon patterning skills to interpret the sights and sounds of the world around us. It seems likely that the eighth intelligence not only has its own identity, but is used to enrich the other seven. It may act as a template that shapes the formal operation of the other intelligences. Imagine the possibilities of successfully developing the pattern skills of children. Learning to become pattern seekers could raise children's social skills, inspire greater interest in math, and perhaps improve batting averages.