So, I looked and I looked and I looked, all through Goleman's fascinating and thoroughly researched books, Emotional Intelligence and Working With Emotional Intelligence. Know what I was looking for? Did you have the same experience?
I sure appreciate Goleman for laying out the cultural argument. I could not agree more that our culture here in the west has systematically trashed emotion as a valued currency of human experience, and that we are dangerously, frighteningly ignorant of the most basic tenets of the emotionally competent life.
I was looking, looking, looking....
Where are the core, basic emotions? What are they called? What does all this rhetoric boil down to as key words? And what are the simple, fundamental meanings of each of these primary emotions? How do we understand their universal purpose? How are we to act when we become aware of these basic human signals?
Did anyone else have this same strange experience?
I couldn't find answers to these anywhere.
So, I was both sad, and excited, encouraged because this is exactly where my book takes up the conversation: specific skill development in emotional competency for adults in the workplace.
Any one else interested and waiting for such an instruction manual?
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