All the different understandings that life has given us.

 

                           Openness and ethics

          References: www.exploratory the mind.se

Five characteristics of people with high existential intelligence.

Existential intelligence invites us to question ourselves and the world around us. In fact, it opens our minds to the bigger picture. All people have something of it, more or less!

Everyone is different. In fact, each of us observes, thinks, feels and takes the world differently. This is somewhat due to the type of intelligence that is dominant in each individual. But we do not seem to find too many people with high existential intelligence in the everyday, consumerist and individualistic society we live in today. Nevertheless, those that do exist have certain characteristics that are well worth mentioning.

Existential intelligence is also called spiritual, philosophical or transcendental intelligence. It's part of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. According to research, we should not boundary ourselves to IQ as a measure of assessing and understanding a human being, as there are other areas of great importance. Could it be the "stomach feeling", or some other substitute?

Language, musical, spatial or interpersonal skills, to name just a few, form part of an individual's assets and determine the degree of intelligence. Initially, the researcher Gardner suggested seven types of intelligence. However, he later considered including two more, one of which was existential intelligence.

 

How are people with high existential intelligence?

We all exhibit every type of intelligence to some degree. But people with high existential intelligence are usually characterized by the following:

1. They possess philosophical restlessness

One of their most characteristic features is that they care about philosophical and transcendental issues. For example, where do we come from? Why do we live? What is beyond death?

These types of questions occupy their minds much of the time. In addition, they enjoy reading and learning about theological, existential, or spiritual issues.

 

Woman thinking

2. People with high existential intelligence like to see the whole picture

They can go beyond the physical senses to explain themselves and understand the world around them.

In addition, they have a great ability to see the whole in all situations. For that reason, they are good advisors, have the ability to solve problems and find solutions and are usually good leaders

3. They have high values

They generally move away from personalities such as selfishness or self-centeredness, violence and conflict. In fact, they are usually conciliatory, peaceful, respectful, and supportive.

In addition, they tend to show great interest in the society around them and defend universal values ​​such as kindness, love, peace and brotherhood. Yet they can often feel alienated and strange in their surroundings.

 

4. They practice an unselfish lifestyle

It is common for people with high existential intelligence to show disinterest in certain ingrained social lifestyles such as consumption and the normalized type of leisure activities in society today. Instead, they usually use their time to achieve an integrated development of their own being.

They are usually people who are extremely aware of the care of their own body, the environment and others. They often perform official acts and altruism. In the end, they perceive union in everything around them.

 

5. People with high existential intelligence have a sense of wholeness

These people are extremely curious. They also have a high ability to abstract. This constantly leads them to search for answers. In addition, they are more open to diversity and tend to want to answer the "why" in all kinds of contexts.

In short, their sense of transcendence is high. Therefore, they try to place themselves and imagine life and daily actions in the context of interconnection with the whole universe.

 

Woman with crystal ball asking herself existential questions

 The importance of promoting existential intelligence

Existential intelligence means development. Self-knowledge, interpersonal skills, mathematical and linguistic knowledge and body control are essential for understanding these types of abstract issues and for applying these approaches.

Children naturally show the philosophical restlessness and curiosity that characterize this type of intelligence. But they tend to be ignored or silenced sooner rather than later. It is also common for these tendencies to recur in adolescence. Yet society does not agree with this type of reflexive process. In fact, it tends to overshadow them in favor of individualism and a material life.

Despite this, the feeling of transcendence is inherent in man. Putting it aside can also generate extensive emotional discomfort. Therefore, it is important to restore and improve this valuable intelligence. For example, the curriculum in school should always be linked to its practical application in reality. In fact, students should be encouraged to look at the same problem from different angles and their curiosity should be promoted.

In our daily lives we can promote this intelligence through methods such as meditation, introspection, contact with nature, care for our physical well-being and prosocial behaviors. Finally, if you are one of those who possess high existential intelligence and sometimes feel different, you should value this unique trait and take advantage of it.

 

"We are all very ignorant, but we are not all ignorant of the same things."                                  -Albert Einstein-

 

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  References:  Utforska sinnet.........

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                                    tree of Knowledge

 

How do you define judgment?

Judgment is the necessary living ability to relate to a lot of different information. That information can be theoretical knowledge or a manual knowledge, but it can also be such as own experiences, feelings and moods or sensations. What the judgment succeeds with is to take in all these sources of knowledge and then act on it.   - Our judgment is linked to a trader, but what gives room to trade is that we are always in different situations.   - Right now, has never existed before and therefore I have to act in a special way right now. Of course, I can take advantage of other people's experiences, but I have to make the trade-off myself in the present.   - In that way, the judgment must always be open to an "unknowledge". That the situation you are in is always greater than the knowledge you own.

Can one reflect on judgment without it becoming something magical or unattainable?

- Sometimes we talk about judgment as if it were a characteristic. It is not, judgment is something very concrete. But what makes us perceive it as magical, abstract or incomprehensible is that it cannot be measured or calculated. It is not possible to make an algorithm out of it and in our technician times we have a hard time dealing with it. If we instead try to think more about what life is, and talk more about complexity and what cannot be summed up, we realize that it is the ability of the living, but we are not so good at understanding that we can think something that the computer can´t.

 

 

What can happen to the individual, within a team, a group or an organization when you start to reflect on the judgment among the members, their active, elected representatives and employees?

- Today there is a great longing to find and verbalize what cannot be measured. We do measure both in civil society and other sectors. - How can we give attention to what cannot be measured? If we start putting things into words, it will be on the agenda. Therefore, we need to find new words to explain what we are thinking. When standing at a distance, it is easy for the judgment not to be taken into account because there are no objective criteria. - How do we work to develop leaders' professional judgment? As part of the judgment practice, you should use your feelings in a professional way.

 

 

What can it mean that there is a usual norm not to mix emotions and the professional?

Subjectivity matters. Without emotions, we do not know what is important. But emotions can also overemphasize something, and thus cause us to stop listening to what we do not already know. The important thing is to have a nuanced relationship to the emotions. It is important to be able to feel an emotion, see it, accept that it exists and then have a distance to it - see what knowledge the feeling carries with it. The game between closeness and distance is necessary to use emotions in a professional way.

 

 

What pitfalls are there when talking about judgment?

- The relationship to " unknowledge " is fundamental to good judgment and is a feeling that the world is bigger than me and what I know. For example, when it comes to artificial intelligence, it is important to note that it is something other than human intelligence. But the judgment can benefit enormously from AI, but we cannot hand over the judgment to it, no matter how complex algorithms we write. The important thing is to say two things at once: do not have superstition about AI but do not throw it away either. It is also a tool you can use.

 

Culture of silence in relation to phrase culture?

Once we have established a value, it does not mean that we do not need to talk about it. These values ​​always risk being taken for granted.

There may be societies where informal channels are good, which can make you go in and break down structures in a society.

The dangerous thing is when we stop talking about the most important things in relation to the concrete work or the concrete situation, the values ​​we establish we need to continue working with.

 

References

Utforska sinnet  (www.utforskasinnet.se)  

Litteratur: Om det bortglömda omdömet? Horisonten finns alltid kvar (Volante förlag) av Jonna Bornemark.

 

 

Speech is silver, but to be quiet is gold (proverb). But with the right judgment, speech can be a smart “diamond”.

Ability, Scope and Affinity

 

Working team or group

How do you know where the shoe is pinching and what could be the cause? If any of the three motivational needs are lacking (belonging, competence, independent)?

As the chairman (head of section or committee) of an association, it is easy to feel a little bitter. It can feel as if only you do all the work yourself and that the others do not pull their weight. But instead of whining, it is important to find out why. You can start by asking people if they want to explain a little more why they do not have the opportunity to do more than they do. Not in an accusatory way but with genuine curiosity and empathy. Maybe they say they do not have time and that may be true, but that does not have to be the whole truth. Is it possible to dig a little deeper and see if there are other reasons as well?

The reason may be that the members are not allowed to get involved in their life puzzle, that they are not allowed to work with the issues they are passionate about, that they do not feel part of a well-functioning group or that they are not allowed to participate and decide.

 

Some concrete tips on things that the association can do to solve the problems. The tips are in various ways linked to the members' need to experience belonging, competence and autonomy.

 

To get involved in the puzzle of life

That no one has time to get involved anymore is something you often hear when you wonder what challenges an association has. It is true that people in today's society have a lot to push into their schedules. If the non-profit commitment becomes another must, it is easy for this to be prioritized away first.

To get people with a thousand other priorities to get involved, it is important to think smart. You can not conjure away the other pieces of the puzzle, but you can make sure that the piece that the non-profit commitment is easier to get into. For example, it can be about running distance meetings instead of regular meetings sometimes so the members do not have to stress to and from the meeting. Another way is to create clear and delimited information that is easy to say yes or no to. Some may only have one hour a week, but if many do a little each, it will still be a lot done in the end. However, this requires a clear work structure and good coordination. The association can also let potential employees help and support the non-profit in various ways.

These different strategies and approaches fulfill the function of counteracting stress and can thus contribute to satisfying members' need to feel competent. When the frameworks and expectations are clear and when you get the resources you need, it becomes easier to get involved.

 

To be able to work with what you are passionate about

Many associations are looking for enthusiasts and think that as long as you find some really driven people, everything will work out. This is a fairly simplified approach. In fact, anyone can become a fiery soul as long as they are allowed to work on issues, they are passionate about. In the same way, any fire soul can go out if the heart issues are prioritized down.

It is therefore important to give great freedom in the work and make it easier for everyone to pursue the issues they are passionate about. Some may not really know what they want when they join the association or they do not dare to take it upon themselves. Then those who lead the work need to be curious and find out what these members could contribute and, as often as possible, encourage their initiative. Rather say yes once too much than no once too much.

Here we can see that the need to feel competent is satisfied because those who engage in their heart issues are usually also allowed to do something they are good at, or want to learn. The need for autonomy is also satisfied because the members can choose what they want to get involved in. Then the work becomes more pleasurable and the commitment becomes more long-term.

 

To be part of a well-functioning group

Well-functioning associations consist of well-functioning groups that thrive together and work well together. This is especially noticeable in groups that do not work so well; groups characterized by infected conflicts or poor work structures.

To create well-functioning groups, it is important to nurture the relationships by making sure to socialize in relaxed ways and get to know each other. Coffee is as important as minutes. The informal interaction connects and creates trust that is needed later when you work under stress and have to make tough decisions. The members of the group also need to talk through how they work, for example who is responsible for what and what is the goal of the work. It is clear that it can take time to spend on such things when you really just want to get started with the work and get things done, but it will pay off in the long run.

Another thing that is important is to be inclusive and open to admitting new members to the community. Tight groups can work well and thrive together, but can also be difficult for outsiders to get into. This entails a risk because the association becomes dependent on individuals and risks being left behind when they, for one reason or another, leave.

It goes without saying that a good group creates good conditions for satisfying the members' belonging needs. But also the need to experience oneself as competent can be satisfied through clear work structures that make the members feel confident that their efforts are really useful.

 

To be involved and decide

Many who are members of an association want to make their voice heard. If important decisions are made over one's head, it is easy to lose interest. Here, the formal association democracy is an important tool for creating conditions for everyone to be able to make their voices heard. However, this democracy can be perceived as inaccessible and bureaucratic for those who do not love formalities. Here it is up to the board to make democracy accessible and clarify how one can actually make one's voice heard. It is best if the members can exercise influence in everyday life, not just at formal meetings.

Then you also need to be aware of the social status and the informal power structures that exist in all groups. It often happens that a person comes up with a good suggestion without anyone listening. A few minutes later, someone else comes up with the same suggestion and suddenly everyone listens. How is it that? The chairman needs to work to counteract such informal power and ensure that everyone can make their voice heard in practice, regardless of social status. For example, you can start all discussions with a round so that everyone has a say.

When the association has good democratic structures, the members' need for autonomy can be satisfied because they are involved in governing the activities. Their need to feel together is also satisfied when, in the democratic dialogue, they get to know each other and build an equal community.

 

Finding balance by learning from each other's differences

The people who are to lead an association and get people involved will constantly end up in situations where different values ​​and priorities are set against each other. Freedom is important, but also a clear framework. Too much freedom can lead to delusion that can lower motivation, but too rigid structures can stifle motivation because members are not given any room for maneuver. Each association needs to explore how different needs can be balanced in the current context in order to strengthen the members' commitment.

Such dilemmas and conflicting needs are difficult for an individual chairman to overlook, as well as satisfying everyone's need for a sense of belonging, competence and autonomy. Therefore, it is important that the association has a shared leadership based on dialogue. Through dialogue, different perspectives can be made visible because different people have different experiences and knowledge that all need to be utilized. A shared leadership means that the members make decisions together but also have a shared responsibility and commitment when it comes to implementing the decisions.

 

References

www.idrottsforskning.se/sa-starker-din-forening-det-ideella-engagemanget/

Read the link in Swedish: Ideella engagemanget

         Balansen mellan girighet och givmildhet.

  FRIHET ?

                Ansvarstagande

  GE  ÅT  SAMHÄLLET             FRIVILLIG

Idella              e n g a g e m a n g

 

     BRA  VÄLFÄRD            otvunget

Non-profit commitment to a democracy

Good continuation of the year 2022   💚💟💙💛

It is happiness that is in focus, not to get rich

To gather around an idea and work together; volunteering. Volunteer = to be able to choose to get involved yourself. An active and dedicated person who shows enthusiasm for something non-profit; entrepreneur, inspirer, brainstormer, committed pusher = what we call fiery soul.

   Every cloud has a silver lining

- There is a brightening in every sorrow; behind every cloud the sun looks ahead.

How to be inspired to be more active in the association, what causes some to have a "bleeding tooth"? How do we meet members who are "fire and flames"? How do we keep the steam going? Talk to farmers in the farmers' way and with the scholars in Latin. Speak clearly.

  ??    some people make a lot too little money

 while a consultant makes a little too much money  ? ? 

   

"-Greedy-Jo sometimes has discussions with Handsome-Jo, and They does not always win."

Timbuktu sings;

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but few want to die

You want to comb the winnings, but do not sow any seeds

You want your piece of cake, you want to eat it also

People want to take back, but refuse to give

Is money the driving force rather than the mission, compared to the corporate world?

- Some people only have money as a driving force. But there must be a management that wants to build the company and its future. And compensate for it in a competitive way. If only money is their driving force, we will find warning signs fairly quickly.

 

Short term, long term. Greed. A few who get very rich. Does it matter to the rest of us? Expressed as follows in the corporate world:  - When the owners demand such a fast and high return, it leads to reduced investments. Because if the companies choose to invest, there will be less money left over to distribute.

The profit demands have become a cuckoo king who starves out of everything else. With declining investment, the economy stops, unemployment takes hold. That is why both the Minister of Finance and many economists are concerned: how should we increase investment and reduce unemployment?

Association activities then? Subsidies, fees, activities, tax-free, etc. The medicines that are tried are many, although there may be a much simpler way: That boards make more reasonable demands on returns. That they use the profits for investments. Note the risks of excessive self-interest.

- We have a climate today, a bonus-oriented society, where we choose people who are driven by their own wallet. Then we also do not get leads that can think in larger terms than that; to think about?

Volunteer, fiery soul, Non-profit, Passionate, committed…

The non-profit involvement is a association's most important resource, but at the same time a resource that is constantly lacking in many associations. To manage this resource, we need to know how it works. What is it that makes people get involved non-profit from the beginning? What makes some stay year after year while others drop out? And what can leadership do to strengthen engagement?

A leadership for inner motivation, also linked to personal leadership.

In a workplace, the manager can influence the employee's salary to make them work harder. A chairman of a non-profit association seldom has such opportunities and instead needs to find ways to strengthen the members' inner motivation.

According to a theory of self-determination, there are three basic psychological needs that need to be satisfied for a strong motivation to be maintained over time; to experience belonging, competence and independence. What are these three needs and what can happen if they are not met?

The need for belonging is about having meaningful and supportive relationships in the group, both on the board and in the business itself. Lack of belonging can be caused, for example, by personal conflicts or by the members not feeling that they have anything in common. Then you prefer to look for other contexts.

The need for competence is about feeling that you have the knowledge and resources required to contribute to the association's work, or that you can develop and learn. This can range from being a skilled football coach to mastering an accounting program. Lack of sense of competence means that the work feels difficult or unmanageable, which leads to stress and discomfort.

The need for autonomy (to feel independent) is about being able to manage one's work based on one's personal commitment; to work with the issues you want in the way you feel comfortable with. Lack of autonomy means feeling controlled and trapped, for example when you have taken on a task just because the chairman has bothered so much.

If these three needs are met, the individual can develop a long-term intrinsic motivation that is maintained without external rewards, something that is exactly what is required in non-profit work. Here it may be worth noting that it is the individual's experience that affects the motivation, not how much others think the needs should be satisfied. If any of the needs are unsatisfied, there is a risk that the commitment falls and that the individual withdraws, in the worst case drops out. The way in which the work is organized is crucial for the individual to have their needs met. It is therefore important to examine the culture and working methods that exist in the association and, if necessary, change what does not work so well.

References

www.idrottsforskning.se 

www.utforskasinnet.se/

 

Life goes on

We can learn to live together with different norms.

The focus should be on the competence for the task we are to perform.

Strong norms, values ​​and religion were the glue that held society together in the past. It worked for most people, when it did not it was about pressure, exclusion, threats or violence!

- In today's society, we can normally leave the relationship when it does not work; separate us, change jobs, leave associations. We have a freedom to say NO! And if it is not to the detriment of society, and you can take your own responsibility, you have the right on your side.

The differences between the extremes of politics are that one side believes that the individual has responsibility and the other side has no responsibility. Most often, their statements are fake to attract as much attention as possible. It is, of course, a moderate balance in reality!

 

A reflection; We never get rid of the shackles that are attached during our first years of life. It takes a lifetime to explore these shackles, and for some they can loosen some while for others they remain locked.

- It's about inclusion and how to get to diversity. But also about how to recruit based on skills without including gender, age and origin.

Society works best with a great degree of freedom.

Whose norm is right? Forcing someone will not be right. You may be inadvertently opted out, you may not have the right network, the right reference. Even if you have the formal competence, there are uneducated forces that put norms, values ​​and religion before competence.

Life goes on💗💚💛💓

See people as people!

Balance in the emission of feelings

 The interest in different kinds of love is complex for our curious society. Freedom, Love and Happiness are treated differently in poetry, psychology and in practice. The love of society?

Love is a complex confluence of many different emotions, not only one emotion in relationships with different things or people. The love you feel in a relationship is different among people and other things. The program for different individuals and things can be: the relationship, children, parents, good friends, gods, political ideologies and animals. It can also be hatred, sex, food …. (Temporary desires). There are many different forms and many areas of the brain are linked to emission, cognition;

But there is also thought activity, plus a subconscious power that is based on what the individual has for norms, prejudices, culture and to which generation you belong - Love is different!

 

Extremes should be a great science to research for better understanding.

Do we really understand what others understand, how much do we fake?

RESPONSIBILITY

We are talking about control areas. You can have the inner control area, which means you feel like you are managing your own life. Or you can have the external control area if you feel that your life is usually controlled by external forces.

In the West, and probably especially in northern Europe, we have mainly the internal control area. We believe that our own choices, and our way of dealing with emotions and situations, are crucial to how we achieve happiness and success or suffer and problem.

The internal control area makes us masters of our own lives and it is a really good basis for an exciting internal and external development.

In the Muslim world, there is generally a very strong area of ​​external control. Here everything is inshallah (if Allah wills) and directed to male authorities.

The lack of freedom and the inability to take control of one's own life leads to personal immaturity and cultural stagnation - and to the world-famous and deeply embarrassing victim mentality: It is always someone else's fault.

The area of ​​control (Locos of Control) is one of the big differences in ideologies; The right believes that the individual has responsibility and the left believes that the individual has no responsibility?

NOTE! This is expressed in general terms. How much we understand we have a hard time understanding!?   We have to research further!

        TOLERANCE ??????????  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ……………

Especially in Western Europe and the USA, being open and tolerant is seen as a positive quality in humans. It gives us the opportunity to exchange views and have an open mind to learn new things. It also allows us to live in harmony with each other, despite political or religious differences.

In Islam, openness and tolerance are a sin.? Here one must keep a distance from non-believers and everything they stand for must be fought.?

There are many examples of Muslim girls and women who have been killed while embracing Western culture and may even have had a boyfriend from another religion. People in different directions of Islam are at war with each other, down to the last comma in the Qur'an.

It is not difficult to imagine what happens when an open and tolerant culture is to exist in the same country as a closed and intolerant culture: the open and tolerant give up and the closed and intolerant will gradually spread. Eventually, it will all be about, and relating to, Islam in one way or another.?!

 

Self-Feeling

In the western world, and perhaps especially in Denmark, we see it as a sign of good self-esteem to have the ability to handle criticism without being upset. If the critic is right, we say thank you for the help. If it's wrong, we can continue to be friends anyway. This gives us good opportunities to learn from each other and thereby develop ourselves and our society.

Our long tradition of religious criticism is an example of how we have been free to develop democracy and make scientific progress.

Here the opposite is true in Islam. Islam's conception of honor develops fragile and sensitive personalities who cannot withstand the slightest criticism or defeat.

This is reflected in poorer results in education and an often overblown attitude from young men which aims to scare the environment from seeing them as the insecure people they really are. According to general psychology, what they call "honest" is most of all about low self-esteem.

 

THE ART OF HELP?

You can´t help people if you do not want to meet them where they are.

We must recognize that Muslims are different from us; that they think, perceive and communicate differently than we do.

As Søren Kierkegaard put it in his text the art of help: "That, when it is important to take a person to a certain place, one must first and foremost make sure to find him where he is, and start there. That is the secret of all auxiliary art. He who does not know this, imagines only when he thinks he can help another.   To really be able to help someone else, I need to know more than him, but first and foremost, I need to understand what he understands. If I do not do that, my compassion will not help him at all”.

Freedom Love Happiness and Society in the word-processor

 

The clouds have no final doomsday, everything is freedom for them. Floating, they are reached by looseness and do not find their fixed point.

In heaven, they draw their message, which is faded by the rotation of the earth.

Everything seems like a funny game.

 

The show of love has no words, whispers like the wind in the trees, floats easily over flowering earth, plays in the summer greenery.

No one hears it more than we, you and I, side by side. For it is to us that it sings its song over the earth far and wide.

 

As true as we have a country of birth, we all inherited it similarly, with the same right and with the same bond for both the poor and the rich. Therefore, we want to vote freely and live safely among shields, but not weighed by merchants as gold on scales.

We struggled together for home and heart, when times of unrest lasted. Not only pride boils down but also the servant of pride. It's a shame, it stains Society's banner, that citizenship is called money.

It is a shame to sit as we have done, to throw stones at our own gate and speak ill of ourselves.

We are tired of bleeding for our own misfortune, of separating heart from head; we want to become a common people, as true as this is drawn.

 

 

When happiness met Love on a midsummer day, Love said to Happiness: My sister, I know you are more beautiful and stronger than I am - so help our little brother who is so gloomy. But Happiness just treasured and we were amazed to see how little she understood of the longing and idea and everything that goes alone and cries.

 

 

How to find happiness then? - I was sweating and tearing with this simple question far more than anyone knows.

I stopped a friend, a worker and an official and a gentleman who looked like a base for some sect.

I brought my question to everyone communities around… And everyone had a hard time fixing anything.

I wondered: - In love? In honor? - Or gold? Until the intellectual said: About walking without guilt.

- Is there anyone who has walked without guilt on our earth, then she walked without socks and shoes.

And I answered - for the face greeted me and the snail that stuck her foot?

                                     societal change