By frankblack on Skatehive
(Photo of My propiety) ¿*Where does my worth lie? Hello, friends. As usual, I’m sharing a reflective piece on a topic that’s been on my mind: emotional intelligence, and why it’s important to learn it above all else. A few days ago I was reading a bit of philosophy, specifically Kafka, and his view on productivity and everything inherent to our personal worth when we cease to be useful, and find ourselves facing an existential void in which we ask ourselves: ‘Who am I?’, ‘Where is my worth?’. (And when faced with this question, we often don’t know how to answer ourselves) Because nobody teaches us to recognise our true worth beyond a qualification, an accolade or social status. Instead, we grow up memorising chemical and mathematical formulas which, in the long run, we rarely apply in our lives. Because academic knowledge is memorised, but emotional intelligence is developed, practised and applied Because let’s be honest, when was the last time you used that maths formula to solve a pe