Monkey intelligence - cognitive dissonance

 I don't know who needs to know this but I'm going to say it anyway...




You can be the most intelligent person on this planet, but if you don't have any emotional intelligence to go along it, then that intelligence is wasted.

What good is it going to do if your trying to put forward an argument, one that's based upon true knowledge and logic, but if you get triggered while doing so, your effectively now operating from your monkey brain, and you cannot no longer learn in that state. Your psychological processes, your schemas are no longer clear. You're no longer grounded, your angry and have jumped on the defence, your technically temporarily stuck within within the same part of your brain that was fully disconnected from the rest throughout your entire  childhood... Like that of a monkeys.. This is neurobiology correct. But now you’re replying within the argument - not to respond to what the other person is saying, but you’re defending what your original point was. Conversations and interactions are two ways and you can't learn anything new if it's all coming from your own mind, you're own memory...


That’s basically what we in the psychology world would call 

 Cognitive dissonance….

And it’s only Job is to keep your core systems safe and away from any forms of threats - which are not beasts in the woods, or someone trying to rob you down a back alley, but just an idea  or a possible new piece of information - which if allowed to be taken aboard as it were, could disrupt what you already believe to be the truth….  That’s why that word ‘dissonance’ forms part of it . 


Controlling your emotions, grounding the not so positive ones in the heat of the moment is paramount if you want to forge the true power of emotional intelligence.. 


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