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Posts Tagged ‘Spiritual Intelligence (EI)’

Contemporary life has become increasingly complex and problematic, which is why most people must face constant challenges, perceptible and imperceptible threats and deal with unusual situations. Substantive capacity to determine its mode of operation is intelligence, understood as the tool to intellection, detect, and plan actions to realize consistent. Classically, this ability is understood as the intellectual power, the collection of information flow and a good imagination to interpret reality and plan consistent solutions. In a very general could penarse a good formal education provides these elements and thus the person would be prepared to successfully in life. In somewhat more specific terms can be assumed that the case would be the prototype of the professional university, who with the kind of education and had agreed to such a degree of training that can make for your personal development, social and emotional development. While all this is true, the demands of life in recent times has shown that it is absolutely true. In other words, it takes more than a good formal education and the possession of one kind of intelligence is understood in ordinary terms.

Then immediately the question arises, what is more? Among the most characteristic responses that have been given is that which speaks of “other types of intelligence.” In this context, have introduced the concepts of multiple intelligences (1), emotional intelligence (2), practical intelligence (3) and spiritual intelligence (4). Basically, the thrust that propels these alternatives is to rescue all dimensions and capacities of human beings seen that intellectual ability alone is not sufficient to achieve satisfactory performance vital And what are those other existential dimensions and carrying capacities? It may be mentioned by way of illustrative examples, the communication capacity, maturity, imagination, creative, intuitive perception, relational warmth and spontaneous generosity, among others. Read the rest of this entry »