Nothing More Than Feelings
Are you as intelligent as you want to be? Has anyone ever told you that you’re bright or smart? If you answered yes to these questions, you’re likely thinking of traditional intelligence. However, what about your “emotional” intelligence?
There are a lot of smart people in the world. They are inventing things, running successful companies, building skyscrapers and advancing technologies. At the same time, do these smart people know what they feel and what to do with that?
In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle said that anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
Perhaps you’ve heard of EQ, or Emotional Intelligence. Much has been written about it. In a nutshell, EQ is the capacity to know what we are feeling, and to then make the most appropriate choices in the presence of those feelings.
We’ve all been in situations where we were flooded with emotion and then said the wrong thing, made some unproductive choices or were downright destructive. Why did that happen? Why were we emotionally hijacked? (more…)
