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Emotional Capacity
Emotional Capacity is the
facility of our personality and feelings and how they engage
with our mental processes and the reality of the world around
us. The various aspects of our emotional capacity is the level
of emotional stress we can endure, our ability to monitor our
emotions and our skill at modifying our emotions - meaning our
ability to eradicate emotions that are dangerous,
counter-productive or illogical to have and our ability to
foster positive emotions and joy when it is logical or
appropriate to do so.
One of the
saddest observations in my life is the fact that most people are
swept away by their emotions and often the emotions that carry
them away are destructive at worse and counter-productive or
useless at best. Most people are content to feel what they
feel and perhaps as an after thought to think about what they
had felt. Only a few people will actually program themselves by
the power of their rational mind what is appropriate to feel and
at what intensity.
One of the
most important emotional skills is for people to learn how to
disciple themselves to work towards rewards down the line and by
putting off reward and feeling pleasure over the fact that they
can accomplish this type of emotional disciple.
In
closing I want to mention that the most common excuses that
people give for not achieving optimal health and physical
performance is; I am emotionally overwhelmed - low emotional
capacity, I am don't know how or I never had a chance to go to
school and further my education - Low mental capacity; I don't
know the right people to participate with, or my friends and
family or my employer is getting in the way - Low social &
political capacity; I don't have the money, I can't afford it -
low financial capacity; and lastly, I don't have the time -
which is most often affected directly by lack of finances or
perhaps their other capacities are courting bankruptcy.
This is why
the capacities for each of the other areas of your life must be
attended to.
What Capacities Should People
Move Heaven & Earth To Improve?
Physical Capacity
Mental Capacity
Emotional Capacity
Spiritual Capacity
Social & Political
Capacity
Financial Capacity =
Primerica
or
Robert Viale
The Rational Philosophy of Ayn Rand's
Objectivism
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