Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Testing One's Worldview

In response to: 7-habits-of-highly-emotionally-intelligent-people 
At first pass these traits appear valuable, but when the underlying motivation is considered I am left unsettled. Is it self-centered, survival of the fittest? Is it altruism? Or is it something else? 
All of life’s relationships and experiences require a framework for interpretation, a worldview. A worldview that treats the negative merely as undesirable, objectionable, and inconvenient is shortsighted and inevitably unstable.  
Emotional Intelligence: the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. (dictionary.com) 
Empathy: the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else's feeling (merriam-webster.com)
One can argue these traits may be judicious, but these traits are not characteristically empathetic. All things considered these traits are faulty in my opinion. 

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