Tune up your EQ

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“When you’re laughing, you’re absolutely alive—truly in the moment. Laughter never occurs in retrospect—it’s always NOW. The experience of laughter is physical, psychological and
emotional. It’s a full-brain experience. … When you laugh, the whole brain is going,and some call it a kind of vacation for the brain. It clears away the cobwebs.”

Quotation by Dr. Ed Dunkelblau, The Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning

You can gain great wisdom by behaving like the little, innocent child that you once were, by being playful. Read this story, learn while you laugh and improve your Emotional Intelligence.

The great teacher was dying. All his students were lined up at his door. They stood in order,
with the most brilliant at the top of the line and the least brilliant at the bottom.

The most brilliant took the opportunity to ask the great teacher a very important question:

“Master, what is the meaning of life?”

The teacher thought for a moment and said in a shaky voice:

“Life is a river.”

Then he closed his eyes to sleep.

The most brilliant student nodded his head knowingly and turned to the second most brilliant student and said:

“The Master says that Life is a river.”

The second and then the third all repeated the Master’s words, and so on all down the line. Finally,
the last, the least brilliant student heard the words:

“Life is a river.”

He stopped for a moment and asked:

“What does he mean, ‘Life is a river’?”

This response was then passed back up the line until it got to the second most brilliant student. He asked the most brilliant student:

“What does the Master mean, ‘Life is a river?”

The most brilliant student woke up the teacher and asked:

“Master,what do you mean, ‘Life is a river’?”

To this the Master, the great teacher replied:

“OK, maybe it’s not a river.”

This story is based on a joke from the Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning. The entire article is well worth a read. Download the article now.Steve Roesler, from All Things Workplace wrote a great article about why comedians are masters of organisational change. It certainly kick started my thinking about humour and emotional intelligence. Thanks, Steve

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