1217 Emotional Intelligence
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Cultivate emotional intelligence to manage uncertainty.
This is part 5 of a 7-Part Mastering Uncertainty series Episodes 1213-1219.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode one thousand two hundred and seventeen. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | How are you doing this week as you explore uncertainty? In today's episode you're |
| 0:17.9 | going to be guided in a meditation to help you open up to life's flow, to allow whatever is trying to happen in your life |
| 0:32.1 | to unfold. I want to share with you a little research I've been doing for this |
| 0:39.0 | week's series and this is from Talent Smart.com |
| 0:45.7 | and I liked this article |
| 0:50.9 | which is titled 11 ways emotionally intelligent people overcome |
| 0:56.3 | uncertainty and it's by Dr. Travis Bradbury. I like this article because it talks about the different part of your brain you access |
| 1:10.8 | when you're managing uncertainty. |
| 1:14.0 | And this is research that was conducted by a Caltech neuroeconomist who imaged subjects brains as they were forced to make increasingly |
| 1:30.1 | uncertain bets. |
| 1:32.3 | The same kind of bets we're forced to make on a regular basis for |
| 1:38.0 | business. This is a business website so he's sharing it from a business perspective. |
| 1:47.4 | The less information the subjects had to go on, the more irrational and erratic their decisions became. Now you might think the |
| 1:59.4 | opposite would be true that the less information we have the more careful and rational |
| 2:06.9 | we are when we evaluate the validity of the information. |
| 2:13.0 | Well, this was not so. |
| 2:15.0 | As the uncertainty of the scenarios increased, |
| 2:20.0 | the subjects' brains shifted control over to the limbic system. |
| 2:26.0 | That's where your emotions such as anxiety and fear are generated. |
| 2:34.3 | Your limbic system, the back part of your brain. |
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