Why Seven is the Magic Number
n May 2015 I wrote a blog Emotional Intelligence and the Ring of Gyges which discussed two seminars about Positive Psychology that I attended. One takeaway from the talk was that you should focus on your strengths and not your weaknesses. This is a standard trope of the Positive Psychology pack along with the advice that you could learn about your strengths doing either R2 Strengths or a VIA inventory. R2 Strengths ranks 60 characteristics and costs a minimum of £20 while VIA ranks 24 and is fr.....
Read MoreThe Mental Illness of the Hustler
In my another blog How the Humm Components were renamed I described how six of the seven Humm Components were each based on a mental illness. A Mover is associated with mania, a Doublechecker with depression, Artists with autism, and Politicians with paranoia. I then suggested that Engineers are associated with the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. In this blog I will discuss which mental illness is associated with the Hustler. Originally it was associated with Hysteria. Hysteria is undoubt.....
Read MoreHow the Humm Components were renamed
As readers of my works know I see myself as carrying the flame of the 7MTF/Humm-Wadsworth model of temperament. Temperament is how your genetic make-up defines how you react emotionally. Understand temperament and you can dramatically lift your emotional intelligence. It was an American psychologist, Rosanoff, who first proposed a paradigm shift in 1924. Until the work of Rosanoff, doctors defined abnormal psychological conditions in black and white: people were either mad or not. Ros.....
Read MoreThe Intelligence of Emotional Intelligence
One of the great things about the Internet is that you occasionally receive, out of the blue, an amazing email. This recently happened to me: Hi Chris, The coverage of your blog is so comprehensive and creative that it’s turned many of us at Nursingdegree.net into regular followers. We recently published a post, “10 Interesting Facts about IQ Tests” that we hope you and your readers might also find interesting. If you have the time to consider it, we’d appreciate any mention or .....
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