Emotional Competence
Strategies
"We are very forgetful. Our minds are full of brilliant ideas but unless someone says Oh think about that idea today, we will forget." [09:19]
even unasked for
groups
Examples
Religion
Tools
ease of access
Churches etc.
"What do religions use art for? Its propaganda. [...] Its propaganda for the beliefs of the religion. [...] it is essentially a giang program of advertising." [10:49]
repetition
"Religions are obsessed with the idea that we forget everything. That's why all religions tell us to repeat things all the time." [08:53]
regular attention
Power-Structures
"Religion has been the most powerful institution that has spread ideas through the world. [...] There's only one machine in this world that has ever educated people really powerfully and that's religions." [02:39]
... but has it done so with fear or using fear?
Solutions
promise that cannot be verified - hence you have to "believe"
rather than believing blindly believe in what you see with your own eyes
Convincing
by fear
Heaven or Hell
... or else!
by shame
at least Christianity
you are a Sinner, you are bad
Topics
work
"... work shich not only pays the money but fulfills their soul - this is very hard"
relationship
"[...] strong desire for communion with another person in a romantic relationship and this is very hard"
Mortality
Contents
Emotional Well-Being
the skill that leads to emotional well-being
System of Education for Emotional Competence
"My recommendation is really a new system of education but one of the things is would teach is emotional intelligence and well-being. [...] We need to raise people who understand themselves, who know what to do with our anxieties, who know how to run a relationship. These are parts of the art of living." [08:06]
"We have given up on the idea that education should be part of the art of living." [08:29]
Making Ideas Spread / Powerful
Role of Culture
Problems with Culture
"Secular culture, the way it's currently arranged is not enough. The way we're teaching things the way we teach art and culture is not enough. We're not doing it properly. [06:27]
"We are not allowed to bring the suffering heart to culture. [...] You are not allowed to bring your deeper self." [05:03]
"Why? Because elite culture has the view that life is basically quite simple. All you need to do in life is separate yourself from your parents, grow up, maybe start a relationship with someone new, find a job that you love, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation" [05:19]
"Culture can replace Scripture [...] and its because of that dream that we are here today. We are the heirs of that deam. People who believe that culturecoming here together this is a church. it's a church but without God." [04:04]
Start Institutions
"The only way in which change comes is when people group together and start institutions." [01:34]
Focus on implementation - rather then just the idea itself
"We have a problem of transmission, not a problem of intellectual discovery. We've done the intellectual discovery. We need to make ideas powerful in the world." [16:32]
"We are too focused on the idea and not focused enough on the implementation." [01:03]
"There is no shortage of good ideas in the world. [...] The thing we can't do is make good ideas powerful. And the world will only change when the lovely ideas we have become powerful." [00:24]
Channels for distribution of ideas
The Role of Art in Emotional Education
Books
"The world does not change through books. A book cannot on its own change anything." [01:27]
... yet it can be part of your strategy to achieve visibility and hence make an idea "powerful".
The Media
Definition
diff from Emotional Intelligence!
Emotional Intelligence
