Gratefulness

Is our intellect added to us after we are born?

Intellect is not something that is added to us later. It must have existed in the self inorder to have manifested itself, later. 

"The tree must have been contained in the seed or could not have sprung out of it". 

So too, intellect must have been contained in the self from the beginning. 

With this context introduced, please go to the words of Jesus and also the Psalms:

"Gratefulness is the greatest offering that humans can offer to God."

Our intellect is the one that dissects all our emotions. The emotions are already pre-existing in our self. It merely come to us according to the situation and we experience it. 

The way we feel about our work, before, after and inbetween...all of that we are merely experiencing. With our intellect we work to avoid faults and failures in our work preparation and execution. The aspect of preparation in itself is an emotion we are experiencing. So is joy, apprehensions, disappointments etc..

Let us work our intellect well, discern our emotions and be grateful to God for the whole of it. That way we will be always above the emotional impacts that life brings us.