The School of Life - An Emotional Education Flashcards
INTRODUCTION
Education - the knack of our species lies in our capacity to transmit accumulated knowledge down the generations.
Romanticism - we are the troubled inheritors of what can be defined as a Romantic view of emotions. It has cast doubt on the need to apply reason to emotional life.
We have the technology of an advanced civilisation balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves.
Emotional Intelligence - we are referring to key components of emotional functioning: the ability to introspect and communicate, to read the moods of others, to relate with patience, charity and imagination to the less edifying moments of those around them. The emotionally intelligent person knows that love is skill and not a feeling.
Secularisation - Culture has not in any way replaced scripture.
Self-help - the book covers are frequently garish and the promises overblown.
Self-Development - once past 18, development becomes largely synonymous with promotion in the corporate hierarchy.
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