Emotional Intelligence & Social Intelligence
e-mo-tion pronunciation: [ih-moh-shuhn]
noun
1. from the Latin word "emovere," it suggests the force that compels and motivates an individual to “decide”, to “act." (ie: It is the force that “moves” the individual)
2. This internal force involves both feelings and thoughts – neurobiology has determined that neither thought or feeling may be isolated or separated from the other--they influence each other.
Each dimension of social intelligence may be better assessed, intuited and understood deploying EI…
Cultivating Critical Thinking & Deep Observational Faculties; Equally vital for Emotional Intelligence…
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed
without changing our thinking. " -- Albert Einstein
"A relentless barrage of "why’s" is the best way to prepare your mind
to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use
it often." -- Shigeo Shingo
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful,
a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a
careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before
one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that
something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been
wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the
ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld
still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing
to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy,
because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.”
-- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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