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Emotional intelligence is a bit of a misnomer. Your emotions come and go, they're outside your control. However, your behavior in the face of those emotions is absolutely under your control. So, a better name is behavioral intelligence.

Too often, anger will tempt you to an excess of words and behavior - like when Tom succumbed to temptation by picking up the phone and calling Ann in a knee-jerk reaction to an email from her. He unloaded on her.

Paul says to be angry but not to sin. So, anger is not the issue but your response to it. Too often, humankind goes beyond what is appropriate in their words and behavior. However, anger can be used for good: It can compel the reserved and shy person to act on behalf of someone who is wronged. Anger is like a roaring fire. Is your spirit material that repels the fire of anger or is it of dry, kindle-like material that turns the slightest spark of anger into a roaring inferno?

No Meaning, No Life Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Introduction: The Why That Sustains Us Hello, dear readers. Sophia Aria here, writing to you from my quiet corner in Abiko, Chiba, where the changing seasons often prompt a bout of philosophical reflection. Today, we turn the pages of a book that is less a novel and more a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: Viktor…

The person who is sexually promiscuous is sexually intoxicated. For such a person, sex is not a means to express love but an end in and of itself - to experience pleasure (which may include the purpose of numbing oneself to life’s stings). For such a person, sexual partners are not human beings but things (a tool) by which to experience pleasure. A sexual partner’s uniqueness, individuality is evaporated in the eyes of the intoxicated. As with one who is intoxicated with alcohol, the sexual drive has this person, they don’t have it. This intoxication does not support good psychological hygiene. Good psychological hygiene is characteristic of a person being able to use both faculties - reason and emotion - to direct their lives in virtue. Sexual promiscuity is to submit oneself to animal instincts rather than to his/her human nature (the unique trait of self-transcendence and the use of reason and emotion). For, it is by practicing self-restraint, self-governance, and delayed gratification that we strengthen these virtues and they become available to us in the trials inherent to the experience of being human.

The parent or counselor must take a stand against a youth who is sullying his mental hygiene. Such a youth sullies his mental hygiene when he engages in sexual intercourse while he is sexually mature (biologically) but psychologically immature (has not yet developed a sense of his temperament, personality, values).

Leadership is about an education of responsibility for oneself and those being led. Consider: Suppose I walk down a dark alley at 1am in a crime-ridden part of town. I get mugged. While the culprits are guilty of the mugging, I am responsible for my decision to walk down a dark alley at 1am in a crime-ridden part of town. Until I take that responsibility, I will live the life of a victim - condemning, criticizing, and complaining and never a life of victory - freedom, liberty, responsibility.