Have you heard of Personal Intelligence?
“Personal intelligence is defined as: “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans, and life experience.” (Mayer, 2008, p. 209)”
I find this utterly fascinating because I practice this in my life daily! Understanding personalities, through the use of emotions, behavior, demeanor, words spoken, etc., is a key factor in every interaction in my life!
Someone has put words to it!
Check this out:
Interesting material! This is the first I’ve heard of personal intelligence, thank you for sharing the information!
I’m learning there are at least four types of intelligence about people – emotional intelligence, social intelligence, personal intelligence and cultural intelligence. I perceive some overlap between these, but there is enough unique in each skill to make it worth my while to learn.
From an article in Psychology Today I found about personal, emotional and social intelligence:
Personal Intelligence concerns our understanding of the personality system itself—our ability to reason both about our own personality and the personalities of other people. Personality, in turn, is the organization of our major mental systems: our motives and emotions, thoughts and knowledge, plans and styles of action, and awareness and self-control.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to reason validly with emotions and with emotion-related information, and to use emotions to enhance thought—it consists of a coherent set of skills. Others have added concepts like “superoptimism,” “persistence,” and “zeal” to describe people with emotional intelligence, but those terms describe motives not emotions, and attempts to measure such qualities indicate that they are not related to the ability to reason about emotions.
Social intelligence is the capacity to understand social rules, customs, and expectations, social situations and the social environment, and to recognize the exercise of influence and power in social hierarchies. It also includes an understanding of intra- and inter-group relations.
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-personality-analyst/201403/emotional-intelligence-and-now-personal-intelligence
I don’t really understand what it means, but seems like a good thing for you Eyes. If they have a word for it then there is understanding and meaning occurring. I learn about how they are beginning to classify along the lines of hot and cool intelligences. Cool information is relatively impersonal and so you can probably reason about it clearly.
A photo of Doris Lessing reminded me of Margaret Thatcher and I found myself making predictions about her personality based on the facial similarities. I read an article later about Doris Lessing and thought there were similarities to what I had thought. Very Interesting, although I have used it before I don’t often find a similarity coming up. Maybe I need to study the face more to help a similarity pop-up.