April 24, 2009

Topic 2: “wishing you had done things differently’ OR “It’s not my Fault”

How many times in your life have you either thought or said “I wish I hadn’t said that’ or “ I wish I had reacted differently’? The answer is probably too many times to count, and that is normal for most of us.

In simple terms, becoming emotionally intelligent will reduce the number of times you will find yourself either thinking or saying such things in future. What do you understand by Emotional Intelligent?

OR

How often do we hear someone say “ I just could’nt help it” or ‘ it was completely outside my control’ whenreferring to their actions or verbal responses to a difficult situation.
In fact, we can always ‘help it’.
The difference between someone who uses EI and someone who does not is that the emotionally intelligent person will fight to maintain control of their emotions and refuse to allow them to dictate their actions unless appropriate. The person who is not using EI will simply give sway to the emotions, regardless of the outcome (an then, of course say “I couldn’t help it”, it just happened.

3 comments:

BINCANG2 said...

This is the most common "expression" that people use when they did somethingi that they regret and I think poeple always use this as an excuses. Sedangkan kita telah di ciptakan otak untuk berfikir baik dan buruk tindakan serta perkataan yang akan di keluarkan. Kerapkali kita tidak dapat mengawal emos, sehinggalah emosi menguasai kita dan bertindak seperti manusia tidak berfikiran yang selalu menyalahkan keadaan.

From: Sweet Lady

Anonymous said...

I think it's better for you my dear to explain what is EQ or EI.. it's in the book but most of us don't even understand it.. :)

Nanti ku bagi input, insyAllah.. cos I got things to be completed.. :).

To all readers this topic is very-very very interesting..you might not heard of it, you might heard of it..but maybe you dont really understand about it.. so..let talk about it..

by: feenz

Anonymous said...

hmmm i have read abt EQ and find it very interesting especially in the field of psychiatric. however to relate ur perception of emosi mengawal fikiran. Acutally in our religion the EQ is similar as to our teaching the heart and the brain. In Islam...this two function differently spiritually. IT's stated the brains is of course the central thinking process, but the brain has it's weaknesses...hence it is the heart that guides the brain to bring order for a better response. I do agree to certain extent that yes we do blame on the situation we regret doing...but to everything we do wrong there is a purpose...and this is where our emotion o intelligence don't come in! how wld u say if there exist another intelligence of different aspect...which have a greater influence on both EQ and IQ...try Spiritual Intelligence? I'll let u think abt it... ;)

from: DJR