EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE – notes from the book “The Cash flow Quadrant”
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
A big part in being human is being human. And being human means having emotions. All of us have the same emotions. We all feel fear, sadness, anger, love, hate, disappointment, joy, happiness and other emotions. What makes us individuals is how we handle those emotions.
Same emotions, different thought…different being…different doing…different having.Emotional IQ is more powerful than Academic IQ according to Daniel Goleman book, “Emotional Intelligence”. Goleman quotes 16th century humanist Eramus Rotterdam, who wrote a satirical vein of the perennial tension between reason and emotion.
In his writing, he uses the ratio of 24 : 1 in comparing the power of emotional brain to the rational brain. In other words, when emotions are in high gear, emotions are 24 times stronger than the rational mind. It is not known if this ratio is valid, but it does have some usefulness as a reference to the power of emotional thinking vs. rational thinking.
(24) Emotional Brain : (1 ) Rational Brain
All of us, if we are human, have experienced events in our lives when our emotions overtook our rational thoughts, most of us have:
1.Said something out of anger that we later wish we had not said.
2.Been attracted to someone we knew was not good for us…but still went out with them, or worse, married them.
3.Have cried, or seen someone cry uncontrollably, because the loss of a loved one.
4.Did something intentionally to hurt someone we love because we were hurt.
5.Had our heart broken and not gotten over it for a long time.
Those are just a few examples of emotions being stronger than rational thought. There are times when emotions are more than 24 : 1, and these are often called:
1.Addictions, such as compulsive eating, smoking, sex, shopping, drugs.
2.Phobias, such as fear of snakes, height, tight spaces, the dark, strangers.
These and other behaviors are often 100% emotionally driven. There is little power that rational thought has over the emotional thought when something as strong as addictions and phobias are involved.
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
A big part in being human is being human. And being human means having emotions. All of us have the same emotions. We all feel fear, sadness, anger, love, hate, disappointment, joy, happiness and other emotions. What makes us individuals is how we handle those emotions.
Same emotions, different thought…different being…different doing…different having.Emotional IQ is more powerful than Academic IQ according to Daniel Goleman book, “Emotional Intelligence”. Goleman quotes 16th century humanist Eramus Rotterdam, who wrote a satirical vein of the perennial tension between reason and emotion.
In his writing, he uses the ratio of 24 : 1 in comparing the power of emotional brain to the rational brain. In other words, when emotions are in high gear, emotions are 24 times stronger than the rational mind. It is not known if this ratio is valid, but it does have some usefulness as a reference to the power of emotional thinking vs. rational thinking.
(24) Emotional Brain : (1 ) Rational Brain
All of us, if we are human, have experienced events in our lives when our emotions overtook our rational thoughts, most of us have:
1.Said something out of anger that we later wish we had not said.
2.Been attracted to someone we knew was not good for us…but still went out with them, or worse, married them.
3.Have cried, or seen someone cry uncontrollably, because the loss of a loved one.
4.Did something intentionally to hurt someone we love because we were hurt.
5.Had our heart broken and not gotten over it for a long time.
Those are just a few examples of emotions being stronger than rational thought. There are times when emotions are more than 24 : 1, and these are often called:
1.Addictions, such as compulsive eating, smoking, sex, shopping, drugs.
2.Phobias, such as fear of snakes, height, tight spaces, the dark, strangers.
These and other behaviors are often 100% emotionally driven. There is little power that rational thought has over the emotional thought when something as strong as addictions and phobias are involved.
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