THE ART OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotions can get you in a mess, make you look weird, weak and worn out— yet it remains a very beautiful thing when you learn how to be emotionally smart. My last post - "MEN ARE FAKE — LADIES ARE REAL" was aimed at raising awareness about the effect of mismanaged emotions especially among the male folks, who suffer from shame because the society had sold a lie about how weak it is to be emotional. Having generated the kind of response I desired, I realised that it would not suffice to just say that some group of people are not great at expressing emotions. Take for instance my premise was that men do poorly with handling emotions — I had facts from America and Nigeria to support my assertion but it is possible that in some other society, men do better at expressing emotions. I have to conceed that it would be more balanced and apt to say that men and women alike, mismanage emotions as bad as the other i.e. some women outrightly find it difficult to show any em