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PHQ | QUESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY: In this episode Joel and Antonia talk about intuitive thinkers and emotions.
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We tried not to conflate ‘feeling emotions’ with ‘emotional intelligence’. In fact, I don’t think we really talked much about emotions themselves, but rather the skills that are built when one focuses on EQ.
All people experience emotions, and I haven’t met a Thinker who has successfully shut them off for any real length of time without serious consequences. EQ isn’t the ability to feel emotions, but (as you stated in your comment) “know what to do with them.” And as you mentioned, it’s generally our dominant function that’s our go-to tool for making sense of most things. That’s why we broke down Daniel Goleman’s various components of EQ and took them one by one explaining how a Thinker could increase their acumen with those skills using thinking processes.
I don’t think we said “don’t feel just think” in the podcast, but if it was inadvertently implied it certainly wasn’t our intention.
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I find it hard to believe that becoming more aware and skilled with introverted thinking does anything to heighten one’s emotional intelligence. Perhaps what you are getting at is by becoming more present, one is better able to process the reality of what is happening within one’s internal space. This has nothing to do with thinking or feeling, but rather a state of presence from which one sees more clearly than when one is not truly present.
To be honest, and I love your guys’ material, I think it is unhealthy to suggest to an INTP to think when it comes to feelings. Feelings are meant to be felt. I can imagine many thinkers already thinking the previous statement is too fluffy for their own liking, however, there is nothing fluffy about what I just said. Feelings are meant to be felt. If that means you need to shut off the thinking process in order to observe feelings, then do so. Once you process said feelings, your lead function will know what to do with them. So long as you keep trying to use your lead function to make sense of feelings before you take the time to feel them, you will continue to run into a wall.