RE: The Intelligence Spectrum: Emotional Intelligence

I’m glad you were able and smart enough to understand the lady who came so that you impressed her. Often it’s because she’s got good rules and has a firm grasp on what should happen, that she takes into her evaluations. What I think it means is that a lot of people are doing the wrong thing either accidentally or intentionally from her perspective and she wants to correct that. I’ve been on the receiving end of that as well as the providing end. We have expectations that we need met based on what we think something should be done as.

I think your discussion here is great and lines up with something I learned a few years ago specifically but knew innately for a while. There is a considerable difference between being smart and being wise.

A smart person can spit off a bunch of information to their audience and keep going.

A wise person gauges their audience and provides that same information in a different manner and in different quantities. Instead of overwhelming them with raw information they review the audience for comprehension both visually as well as from questions. They can then cater their delivery to make sure people understand the content.

Both of those people know the information but their delivery is based on whether they are wise enough to know how important it is that people retain and absorb the information.

Wisdom is what we need more of in the world, and I think you displayed wisdom by understanding the lady reviewing your work, and making sure to cater to a satisfactory end result. In this way, I don’t think I would consider manipulation one of the things you did.