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Day 113 of OU studies

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Edited by Casper Smith, Sunday, 24 Jan 2021, 16:51
My experiences in life has meant that my studies of life have been mainly focused on the study of me, in which i developed a an EQ to be proud of, which formed the foundation of my work with people who suffer from issues of substance dependency, childhood trauma and recidivism.
In order to match my IQ with my EQ, in order to learn an academic and professional language to help me create balance and be the best i can be, give the best of me, so that the people i  journey on with will get the best from me.
I have took on a journey of academic learning with the open university.

What i have noticed the most when entering the academic world, is that the people i am coming across have studied in a contrasting way, meaning they have worked so hard on their IQ and have took no notice of their EQ, It  has become quite apparent to me that i have this disconnect with responses to my blog when it comes to matters of an emotional nature, now when it comes to natures of IQ, i seem to have a lot of people queuing up to correct me and tell me what i should be doing, how to be doing it, with a long list of references that have come from some one else's thinking.
I was not prepared for this coldness when entering the academic professional world, i was not prepared for the ego in the academic world and i was not prepared for the competitive nature of people that seem to be in a race to out know each other by complying stacks of others peoples information, bizarrely, with out learning their own first.
This leads me to think that, no wonder the western world is in the mess its in, when we have a bunch of highly intellectual people making the decisions on how a world must be run, when they have spent years of no emotional attachment, being bought up by nannies, at  boarding schools, private schools, universities, have billions of pounds spent on an education, that teaches people how to think like other people and reference it, not one of those classes teaches about EQ and how to know your self and reference that.
I will use the OU for what its worth and i will never become these people, i am not perfect "warts and all" I love me, the way i think, the way i feel and the suffering i have endured, because had i not endured that suffering and if i never studied me, i would be clever and cold and god bless I'm not.
After reflecting on what i have just said for a moment, this video came to mind and i thought i would share it with you, it truly is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck


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