Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yes I need to heave a deep sigh!
I don’t really know if I’m in a position to do justice to the topic I’ve chosen to write on. Nonetheless I’ll give it a try. To start with I see no connection between ‘cold blood’/‘cold blooded’ and ‘emotional intelligence’. Emotional intelligence or EI according to Wikipedia is the ability to identify, assess and manage the emotions of one and others. An emotionally intelligent person can detect emotions in faces and harness them, even negative ones to achieve intended goals. In other words EI is all about kindness, generosity and support. These days it’s a therapy that provides disempowered people with compassion and empathy to accept and combat harsh reality.
‘Cold blood’/ ‘cold blooded’ on the other hand is all about negativity. It means lacking feeling or emotion. The suitable adjectives for ‘cold blooded’ are inhuman, insensate, callous, cold, brutal, ruthless, heartless, merciless, dispassionate, pitiless, unfeeling and cruel. It also means having a body temperature that can change according to the temperature of the surrounding, just like fish and amphibians. That would be a metamorphosis to remember but I’m glad not to have such a cold, cold heart or is it blood?
The topic under scrutiny is about experimenting with Emotional Intelligence in ‘cold blood’ and that’s what I fail to understand because going by the definition the two are ‘stark opposites’. To be ‘cold blooded’ one needs no emotion and no intelligence, it’s all about insensitivity, brutality and callousness. Since there’s no feeling or consideration, no precision of time or place or occasion is needed. There’s no reflection either.
Well, to be able to find any link between the two is like searching for a needle in a haystack, therefore I give up. Further reasoning will lead to insanity and that's a heavy price to pay.
2 comments:
I feel they are quite firmly linked, actually.
Being able to sense and react to another's emotions is one thing. That's EI.
But you can use that knowledge to further your own agenda, use that awareness of action, thought, and reaction to achieve a specified end, regardless of the effect on that other person. That would be cold blood.
Sociopaths and Psychopaths often have extremely high EI quotients. It's just that they could careless about anyone but themselves.
Hi James,
That's self centeredness isn't it?
So, can or do people really paly with each others emotions? Isn't that dangerous?
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