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Wednesday 3/10/07 I am delving into a really good book at the moment, called "Raising your emotional Intelligance" by Jeanne Segal. This topic totally fascinates me, it makes so much sense that there are in reality, so many different forms of intelligance. Someone can be book smart, but socially inept, and will more than likely spend their life working for somebody who perhaps did not get the best grades in school, but through their ability to work well in groups, and to be able to handle whatever comes their way,has risen to the top. There is a young guy on work experience in our company, who is doing a new kind of Leaving Cert, which is based on pratical experience and project work, as opposed to a few hours in a room at the end of the year, with an ability to regurgitate everything that you have memorized. I remember years ago someone in my class at UCD, treated me so well, and with no hint of pretence or condescention, that I asked her if she had a close relation or friend that is disabled. When she said no, it struck me that she must be very emotionally intelligent. That sort of EQ means that she can see past anything external, and be able to see the person. Whether that person is covered in tatoos or piercings, an emotionally intelligent person knows that you cannot simply judge a book by its cover. Its very easy to pontificate and just pay lip service to these topics. On an EQ scale I'd have to give myself 3 out of 10, I still lose my temper far too easily, and go from zero to 100 in a blink of an eye, even over trivial stuff. But the good news about emotional intelligance is that it can be developed, and there are definite techniques to help you do so. One of the things I've learned reading this book, is that anger is perfectly natural and normal as an emotion. The problem and difficulty is that it has to be proportional to the given situation. So there is no point being very angry about a given situation, but doing very little about it, and instead taking it out on those nearest and dearest to you. I hold my hands up, and say that this certainly strikes a chord with me. On
a less serious note, I'm still trying to find somewhere else to
go for holidays. An Italian has contacted me, and we are planning
to go to Rome next May. We are trying to make the whole trip not
astronomical but there so many places in Europe I'd like to see,
but now with my reality of needing really 24 hour assistance in
a foreign country, huge esculating price tags really rule out so
many European countries. Italy has been at the top of my list of
places I'd love to see for a long time,
so hopefully it will come true,
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