emotional intelligence

  • Tending Our Garden

    All people are driven by their emotions: Passion fuels the imagination, and imagination is the garden where logic grows. When people want war, they get war. When people want destruction, they get destruction. When people want a new start, they… Continue reading

  • The Politics of Emotional Responsibility

    Our emotions are the foundation of our beliefs, motives, and behaviors. Being aware of our emotions, and honest about them, at least with ourselves, will alter our beliefs, motives, and behaviors for the better. Making the effort to be aware… Continue reading

  • Media Control and Public Policy

    Begin with convincing people that all anger is bad and should be repressed. Any display of anger, no matter what for, is attacked and punished. Making it very clear that it is the display of anger that is wrong, not… Continue reading

  • People do many different things to avoid their own negative emotions. Some will take drugs, while others will work, travel, gamble, or have sex. There are even people who will instinctively provoke intense anger in others in an effort to… Continue reading

  • All In The Family

    It is more efficient to lead free people with an openly shared vision, than to rule people, controlled by edicts and laws, towards a private goal. Continue reading

  • Hemingway’s Dance

    Just as a male Manakin woos a mate,Hemingway’s selfish, masculine exuberance was crafted,in its environment, to attract a specific type of woman.A woman who could evoke a particularfrequency of love in him. It was that exact frequency of lovethat fueled… Continue reading