Empath

A Complete Guide for Finding Your Sense of Self, Use Emotional Intelligence and Creating a Joyous and Full Life

By: Nigel Daveyson

Narrated by: Sam Slydell

Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's Summary

This audiobook offers a current outlook on emotional intelligence. To understand emotional intelligence, it requires you to have self-awareness and meta-cognition skills at the basic level. The key here is being able to identify and name the emotions we're feeling without being reactive or judgmental.

By default, we are just reacting to things as they are happening, and to be fair, our cognitive capability is designed to make us survive in that mode for life. But we are no more living in simple conditions - our systems are complex, our cities sophisticated, and our workplaces require complex communication. 

And it will only ever get complicated over time. The only solution is to adapt. This flexibility at adapting makes us the best among creatures in the animal kingdom. Emotional intelligence was made for us. When we truly have meta-cognition that's when we gain self-awareness because what happens is, as soon as we're able to identify and name the emotions we're feeling, our neocortex, the language part of the brain, and the prefrontal cortex gets involved. It needs to get involved in order to be able to observe the emotions and name the feeling. That process is the simple oversimplification of how an extremely emotionally intelligent observer will react based on introspection. 

As soon as we can do that, we have gotten away from the grip of the amygdala, the lizard part of the brain that is so archaic and primal that it's only thinking about fight or flight and only gets activated in the face of really charged emotions.

Dive into this audiobook, and up your game.

©2019 Nigel Daveyson (P)2019 Nigel Daveyson