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Tag Archives: emotional intelligence
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Over the past few centuries, there has been an increasing shift toward focusing on intellect and away from emotions. I fear that this has been a giant mistake. Allow me to explain. In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt compares the … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, feelings, intellect, Jonathan Haidt, logic, Marshall Rosenberg, reason, Sawyer, The Importance of Emotional Intelligence, The Righteous Mind, thoughts
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Have you ever spent a lot of time around someone who only ever wants to focus on positive emotions and will go to the ends of the Earth to avoid addressing negative emotions? Have you experienced how it made you … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged death, dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, healing, love, memories, Out of Sight Out of Mind?, pain, Sawyer
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Great Habits from Years Past
I had a lot of habits as a kid that allowed me to have multiple hobbies and extracurricular activities while still doing well in school without burning out. Most of those beneficial habits were unintentional, planned for me by others, … Continue reading
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Tagged burnout, dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, exhaustion, friends, Great Habits from Years Past, habits, recovery, relief, Sawyer, socializing, stress
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Life Training Levels
Some video games come with training levels. In a training level, it doesn’t matter how many times your character dies, how long it takes to complete a task, or how many attempts it takes to learn the controls. You can … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged dog, effectiveness, emotional intelligence, emotions, failure, Life Training Levels, love, loved ones, mistakes, pain, regret, Sawyer, success, time
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Love, Loss, Pain, and Memories
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the main characters erase their memories of each other after their painful breakup. I’ve talked about that movie before so I won’t rehash it all here. Instead, I will focus on a brief … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged death, dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, friendship, healing, life, loss, love, Love Loss Pain and Memories, memories, pain, Sawyer
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Emotions and How We Treat Each Other
There is a lot of disagreement around emotional management and how we should treat each other. One common perspective says that nobody can control anybody else’s emotions. Another, perhaps less common, perspective says that nobody can truly fully control their … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, dog, ego, emotional intelligence, emotions, Emotions and How We Treat Each Other, fawn, fight, flight, freeze, healing, love, pain, Sawyer, trauma, trauma responses
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Healing Deep Trauma
I still have a lot of pain from being mocked, shamed, guilted, yelled at, hit, intimidated, and otherwise punished, hurt, and traumatized when I felt afraid and asked for help early in life. Even now, that often leads to me … Continue reading
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Tagged best friend, communication, confrontation, dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, Fear, friend, friendship, guilt, healing, Healing Deep Trauma, kindness, love, negativity, pain, Sawyer, shame, trauma
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Reminiscings
Lots of vulnerability in this post. I’m sharing this because it’s highly relevant to me right now and it may very well be relevant to you, if not now then maybe sometime in the past or sometime in the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged adulthood, adults, childhood, contentment, emotional intelligence, emotions, enjoyment, fun, future, innocence, James Rolfe, joy, judgment, kids, magic, memories, nostalgia, past, peace, play, Presence, present, Queen, Reminiscings, Surrender, time, youth
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