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It Is Very Sad that Our Experts and Even Oprah Are Promoting Half-Baked Knowledge.
Our experts are all focused on emotional intelligence as the solution to all the mess in education and society. As a result the drug addictions, the divorces, the greed, the individual debt, the income gap, the corruption, the education mess and student debt etc. are all on the rise.
What do you expect when the symptoms are mistaken as the real cause. It is like the house is on fire and our experts are trying to control and manage the heat and smoke, without paying full attention to the fire.
Emotional intelligence is the smoke where emotional health is the fire. Trying to create emotional intelligence on its own is like trying to create smoke without lighting the fire.
Mainstream science has given up on wisdom and embraced emotional intelligence, Wisdom and emotional intelligence are one and the same! They are both the symptom of emotional health. It is still not too late for our experts to focus on creating emotional health.
Those who are still researching wisdom are defining it by its attributes. It is like defining a tree by its fruit. If I am shown an apple will I get even remotely an idea of what is the tree? My solution is to create definitions that work, that make wisdom possible.
Each and every attribute of wisdom is humility. Pure love is humility expressed as love! Humility can be scientifically defined, measured and cultivated. So lets define wisdom as humility and focus on creating a humble world.
My big problem is will the likes of Oprah ever admit that they have been promoting half-baked knowledge for decades. Will our experts push aside the focus on emotional intelligence and take up the cultivation of emotional health through humility?