Our assignment is to "Describe how your level of self-awareness has changed since you began your MSLD program with respect to the "Five Core Aspects of Self-Awareness""

To be perfectly honest, upon reflection of the "five core aspects of self-awareness" has made me realize how any reflections of these aspects as applied to my personal awareness was really done on a basic and simple level.  However, one item did pique my interest.  

Emotional Intelligence was a term that I was exposed to from a previous class, Organizational Behavior 520.  In general terms, Goleman had built upon Mann's intelligence theory of leadership.  Mann stated that intelligence plays a key role in leadership attributes, and that Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence was a natural extension of this theory.  However, upon looking at both Mann's and Goleman's theory, little evidence was provided that first confirmed that Mann was correct, which would then make Goleman's further extension of Mann seem suspect.

In other words, I have not really put much stock into emotional intelligence on a personal level.  This may be to my ultimate detriment or embarrassment; however, I do feel that exercising emotional control is a necessary attribute when in a high stress situation.  Whether this qualifies as "intelligence" or "experience" may be debated.  Having personally been in stressful situations and then repeating them has given me confidence that I can overcome such future duress.  This may be also considered “grit” or “resilience”.  

The airline industry is currently advocating the idea of “resilience” in airline training and operations, to ensure that pilots are properly equipped to handle whatever situation is presented to them.  This supports the idea that these skills are trainable to willing students. 

However, if a characteristic is trainable, is it really considered “intelligence”?  Isn’t a trainable task, or process, or state of mind really a conditioned or trained response?  Isn’t “intelligence” deemed as more inherent compared to “education”? 

I do wonder if our language gets the better of us…





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