Name: あなたの感情をマスターする方法｜感情的な知性 (how to master your emotions | emotional intelligence)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:17:28.000Z
Duration: 8 min 15 s
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It's sometimes referred to as the spirit or the breath of life.

It prescribes our actions and colors our world.

The one who can master the emotions can master actions,

and the one who masters actions, is the master of all future realities.

Today we look at the stories of 2 different men, 2 different world views, 2 different

2 different goals, and, ultimately, 2 different paths.

He belives that there are two kinds of people in the world: the conquerors and the conquered.

If you want to be great, you have to become a conqueror.

It's a dog eat dog world, and only the fit survive.

You have to determine who will conquer with you and whom you must conquer.

He fell in love with Greek heroes who displayed the highest virtues: courage and bravery.

He didn't have much as a kid and had to work hard for everything he had.

This led him to believe that a persons life is the outcome of their actions and that they

must take complete responsibility for what happens to them.

Physically and intellectually, he held himself to incredibly high standards.

There's no one he wanted to conquer more than himself, each and every day.

Alexander knew what he was seeing: a conquered man.

How could this man let himself be conquered so badly?

How many mistakes must he have made to end up in this position?

Why doesn't he take steps to dig himself out of this hole?

He's trying to take from those who worked hard for what they have.

Those who made good decisions should not be punished by those who made bad decisions.

Alexander knew that if the man wanted to eat, he needed to learn how to get fish

“This man won't get a penny from me”, he thought to himself,

“that would only enable his destructive behaviors and poor attitude towards life.

By suffering he'll learn or he'll die; that's the way the world works.”

He believes that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who can help and those

His father taught him that the highest good is to serve those who have nothing,

Life is difficult, and those who have should serve those who have not.

He fell in love with various spiritual leaders who loved all and lived to serve.

He grew up quite well off and always felt indebted to those who didn't.

He felt lucky to have everything that he did.

Joseph knew what he was seeing: a completely underserved man.

“Imagine how much we have failed as a society to let someone get to this point,” he thought

to himself, “life is so difficult and full of suffering and based on luck,

that anyone of us could end up in his position.”

He grabbed all the money he had in his pocket and handed it to the man.

Both men had unique worldviews shaped by their past experiences.

They both percieved the same man in a different light.

Where one saw a weak man, the other saw a forsakened man.

Their perceptions led them to feel different emotions.

There emotions were heavily affected by what they thought they were seeing.

In actuality, both men knew nothing about the homeless man,

and they have no idea what led him to his position.

From a young age, both men were surrounded by an invisible structure

The knowledge they grabbed from this structure allows them to navigate the world.

Alex grew up in a structure of personality responsibility, of strength & weakness.

Joseph grew up in a structure of collective responsibility, of the needy & the fortunate.

In Alex's world, anger is a useful tool that allows him to become strong

In Joseph's world, compassion is a useful tool that allows you to become a giver

One might wonder, if you could change the invisible structure that surrounds these men,

if they reversed the books they read or the family that they had,

would they perceive the world differently?

If they percieve the world differently, would they feel differently?

The master of emotions, then, is the one who can alter the invisible structure around them.

This allows them to gather a diverse set of concepts which allows them

to see the same scenario in different ways.

They would be neither Alexander or Joseph.

They could become either one depending on the circumstances.

You'd probably say a bunch of 3/4 circles and a square.

Technically, there's actually no square there.

It's simply a byproduct of how the 3/4 circles are arranged.

But that doesn't change the fact that you'll always see it there

because you're familiar with the concept of a square.

If you never learned what a square was, you'd never see it there in the image.

There's a layer of meaning hidden in the negative space.

Emotional mastery is about perceiving multiple layers of meaning in the negative space of life.

It's about seeing all of the potential realities that could exist.

It's about looking at a homeless man and seeing that his position could be a byproduct

of his personal decisions or the byproduct of a cultural failure.