I’m intrigued by a new topic. This happens about once a day, so I can’t really keep up very well. “Squirrel!”
Anyway, today ‘emotional intelligence‘ caught my eye. Google Dictionary defines it as “the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically”. How great would mastery of this be?! There would be substantially fewer disagreements, hurt feelings, misunderstandings, fights, wars……….we’d live in a psychological Garden of Eden.
I ordered Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
A Harvard Business Review article contained this chart, amid a bunch of words that I scanned briefly and remember none of (just show me the pretty pictures):
So, the book is due to arrive on Thursday and I’ll read it sometime in the next several years and possibly remember to circle back around to this post and comment more on the details.
More likely what will happen is that I’ll find a new topic by Thursday, such as how jelly donuts are made or something equally important, and the book will sit on a stack of unreads for way too long. Which brings me to THIS awesome little nugget that I was super excited to find out about. Instead of feeling depressed about how I’ll be dead well before I read all my books, I can think about how smart I am to have them. Or something.
*Abbreviations like this bug me.
