Focusing on Emotional Intelligence is Like Focusing on Wisdom. It is Time to Focus on Emotional Health.

Imagine Trying to Define, Understand and Create Smoke Without Knowing
What it is and How it is Created. Our Experts are Doing the Same With
Emotional Intelligence.

Trying to create emotional intelligence is like trying to create smoke
without lighting the fire. Creating emotional health is creating
emotional health that generates emotional intelligence.

The big tragedy regarding wisdom and emotional intelligence is that
these terms are still fuzzy for our experts. Our experts like Daniel
Goleman and David Brooks decided to focus on emotional intelligence
while still not able to fully comprehend what constitutes emotional
intelligence. The problems with defining emotional intelligence are
the same as defining wisdom; as these two entities are one and the
same.

Wisdom/emotional-intelligence is the smoke where emotional health that
springs from an emotionally healthy brain is the fire. In order to
create the smoke one has to create the fire. Unfortunately our experts
focus on emotional intelligence; without fully comprehending what it
is; let alone not knowing that it is a secondary entity and that it
cannot be created on its own. Our experts got trapped into trying to
create emotional-intelligence without connecting it to the fact that
it springs from emotional health and its creation requires the
creation of emotionally healthy brains.

I am appealing to the Daniel Golemans to please do not listen to me;
listen to the facts on the ground. Trying to create wisdom on its own
is a fuzzy failure and so is trying to create emotional intelligence
on its own. Instead please recommend and pursue brain education that
for the young is emotionally healthy parenting/upbringing and for the
old it is brain therapy. Imagine if you think that smoke is an
independently solid entity and not knowing how it is created; and you
keep trying to create it
on its own. You won’t even be able to understand it much less create
it. The same is with emotional-intelligence/wisdom. These are the
smoke where the emotionally healthy brain is the fire.

Making emotional intelligence main stream is a big contribution but it
still takes us from the fuzziness of wisdom and lands us squarely into
the fuzziness of emotional intelligence. No wonder there is not a
single universal robust course on emotional intelligence. Saying
emotional intelligence is as important as regular intelligence is like
saying wisdom is as important; but where do you go from there? There
are 1000s of papers and hundreds of books on emotional intelligence,
all trying to explain emotional intelligence and all trying to teach
emotional intelligence. They all end up exactly like the books on
wisdom. It is like trying to explain smoke as an independent
standalone entity that can be created on its own. No wonder these
books do not succeed in explaining emotional intelligence; nor do they
provide effective ways to learn emotional intelligence. After all how
can one create smoke on its own without even knowing that it needs the
fire to come into existence?

Instead of emphasizing emotional intelligence our experts should
consider emphasizing emotional health through brain education. By
creating the healthy brain; emotional intelligence/wisdom can be
created. It is the responsibility of our experts to focus on brain
health and emotional intelligence will take care of itself.

One does not even need to be an expert on
wisdom/emotional-intelligence to create a wise society. Mothers who
produce wise progeny don’t necessarily know what is wisdom; they just
know emotionally healthy parenting. All our experts need to do is lay
out emotionally healthy parenting guidelines for the young and brain
education/therapy for the old. In fact a whole new subject of brain
education can be created for all grades; as well as for parents,
teachers and those older.

Instead of focusing on emotional intelligence if only our experts had
focused on emotional health by way of brain education; we would see
much progress toward a wise society.