S202412 Ep8: Paul O’Mahony’s ”INTELLIGENCE SWAMPED by AI & EI”. #DecPodPoMo. Day 8/31

This was recorded on 9th December 2024.

"Everyone's talking about emotional intelligence
and I'm talked out about it I spent so much time talking myself about emotionally intelligence that I hardly have any time for intelligent conversations with other people but what fixing me at the moment is emotionally intelligence the reason it's vexing me is that I have signed up to do a project Called understanding emotional intelligence and the project requires me to keep a journal of my emotions for two weeks 14 days and I'm thinking I don't wanna be writing down every day at the end of the day how I'm feeling today or how I felt during the day today That seems to me to be a you know better to wait about your emotions exactly when you have them rather than thinking back to I feel irritated earlier today while I was I was frustrated at one stage today and I was pleased twice today I was pleased to discover that I don't have cancer or that's what the specialist the consultant said to me when I went to have The results of my MRI on my prostate revealed to me and he said well you don't have cancer as far as I can see so that's good news isn't it I didn't know whether what I was meant to feel but not what I was meant to feel I actually felt very calm I had to calm during all the days in between the MRI and getting the results of the MRI I had talked to myself on the way in should I to the hospital or to the consultants room to the point where I was saying I look I'm not controlled over it whatever will be will be and I was moulding these kind Cliches but I really was feeling relaxed I wasn't feeling nervous or shaky or anxious surrounding like that in a sense I probably out to have been because the truth days I didn't know what the results were going to be and if I had gone in there this morning and he said to me well I'm afraid Paul that you have cancer I can only guess that I would've been less relaxed but I would've been more nervous and if he said well right now we have to do an operation on you a very soon to get rid of it we do a biopsy this afternoon and you can come in and have chemo tomorrow morning and by the way you Have limited lifespan given the extent of this would've been I would've been in bed so I can just assume because I have never been in bits as result of a medical thing being told to me about my medical condition before I can't be 100% sure but it just talking about it it makes me realise positive very silly sometimes Here you are sounding as if you don't have the care in the world but I was pleased I definitely was pleased so pleased that I decided to carry on go up to Blarney village and try to find a place where which would be suitable for the 50th anniversary of Lonnie Toymaster club which is coming at the end of January but that's another story but back to Emotional intelligence was it emotionally intelligent for me to be saying to myself this morning to worry everything is fine or would it have been more intelligent if I was thinking that if this is what said to me that's what I do and if this is what said to me that will another words have to done a whole load of them what's it called times when you think Thinking about what might happen if things go left or if things go right anyway this is going to be my first journal of my emotions so it's been a little bit of a kind of rollercoaster I got frustrated because I took me ages and ages to figure out how to use a website which has changed radically and I don't know how long I spent way way too much and I have to do a podcast interview 22 minutes or 23 minutes that at least will be a pleasure so there we are the first of my journals of my emotions although yesterday I was talking about being tired and I think being tired is an emotion too so that we are.
 it's Paul O'Mahony in his kitchen sounding off" (Transcription by Voice Record Pro)