Your brain is shrinking from non-use… and that explains a lot about your life
They say you use all of your brain… but it is still shrinking… My testing shows that you are only using 1% of what your brain is capable of.
You live and learn… but not necessarily from books
Sometimes one thing happening doesn’t drive things home. You need a jackhammer… Or two, seemingly independent occurrences.
This is what happened yesterday.
A little bit of preamble: I have noticed that hordes of people come to my site looking for ’emotional intelligence’ and I was puzzled. I didn’t understand what the expression means, but instinctively knew that it had something to do with recognizing emotions, expressions of emotions accurately. But little did I know…
So I just finished a book, a thriller, my favorite genre, about the college admissions scandal. Cheater’s Game by Paul Levine. The lawyer is Jake Lassiter, and the defendant is Jake’s nephew, Kip.
Kip is brilliant. And emotionally not intelligent. I quote from the book: Kip has Nonverbal Learning Disorder. He misses personality cues and fails to read faces and body language. Kip is a lot smarter than I am, but I can spot a phony and he can’t. He has what my granny used to call ‘book smarts.’ But he lacks ‘street smarts.’
