Science of Psychological Intelligence

Abstract

25th of April 2018, Mr. Gary and Mrs. Mary Chauncey’s adopted daughter, a 11year old spunky child, Andrew accompanied by her parents were making their way, through the uncertainty of the night. Little did the couple know that it would be their last night? The Chauncey family was passenger on an Ambark train that crashed into the river after the barge hit and weakened the rail road in Louisana’s bayou country. Thinking first of their daughter, the couple tried their best to save Andrew as water rushed into the sinking train; somehow they managed to push Andrew through a window to the rescuers then as the train sank beneath the water, and they perished. At first the story of the couple seems to me like a story straight out of movie script. But if you sink deeper into it, such act of almost mythical courage of parent sacrificial for offspring’s is nothing new and has been repeated countless times in the human history. A normal person, who is mentally sound, would think of saving his life and his life alone. Does that mean that this act of couple was just an act of stupidity or something superficial and not pure love? Well, this is where emotional intelligence comes in. From the perspective of parent making a desperate decision in a moment of crisis, its nothing more than love. Logically, Andrew was an adopted daughter so it had made sense if they saved themselves first, but emotionally, saving Andrew was the only thought that crossed their mind in that moment or saving Andrew was the only choice they had. Now Andrew is known as “Miracle Child” (by New York Times). And from where I see, she definitely is a Miracle’s child. Rational thinking, logic or I.Q., and emotion are the two sides of the same coin. Both are intertwined together, like a DNA strand and form the basis of thought process and human psychology. But in this present world, people have this stupid notion that if you excel at logic (I.Q) then u r predicted to be successful. That’s not correct at all. Even if one has high I.Q (that is neglecting emotional intelligence) might be selling tea in a train station because he is an emotional mess. Psycho killers, mass shooter quite fit into this category, whereas a dumb down person but with strong emotional intelligence might be at the top of the world.

Keywords: ADHD, emotion, intelligence