Emotional Recognition: The First Step to Control Emotions

The teacher stood at the podium, holding a bottle of water in his left hand and a bottle of cola in his right. He began to shake the cola slowly, then faster and faster. The students in the audience couldn’t help but gasp, with some eagerly shouting: “Stop shaking it, it’s going to explode!” The teacher stopped, placed the cola on the table, and then began shaking the water bottle with even greater force. The audience fell silent. Finally, perhaps from arm fatigue, the teacher also placed the water bottle on the table.

The Misunderstood Emotional Intelligence

I wonder if you share my tendency to label people with the following traits as having “low emotional intelligence”:

  • Difficulty understanding others’ situations and feelings;
  • Lack of ability to put oneself in another’s position;
  • Excessive intrusion into others’ privacy;
  • Making jokes in serious situations, expressing negativity in joyful atmospheres, completely lacking social awareness.

The Traps of Self-Control

Have you ever liked a friend’s perfect-body running post on social media, closed your food delivery app, only to order fried chicken half an hour later? Do you find yourself caught in this cycle of admiration and self-blame?

We all admire people with strong self-control—those who exercise consistently, control their diet, and execute plans without fail. But when it comes to ourselves, why does it become “plans never keep up with giving up”?

Eat for Good Health

Today is the weekend, let’s talk about some lighter topics.

A few days ago, a colleague recommended a book called “You Are What You Eat,” with the reason that “disease has a direct relationship with what you eat.”

At first glance, everyone understands this. The old saying “disease enters through the mouth” is well-known to all.