SP #4

In the new book, i started reading about different people with brain damage. The first story i read was about a man how damaged the frontal love, peripheral cortex, of his brain. This affected much of the way he acted and demonstrated his feelings. He couldn’t tell emotions from peoples faces, but only from the tone in their voices. It was as if he was blind. He could not process the images being sent to his brain. This section was especially interesting because although the book is not about social intelligence, it showed how physical problems in a brain can change the way one acts with others, not just in the obvious ways. I think that many people dont know how to be emotionally or socially intelligence because their brains are not trained to be aware of these things. One of the main aspects of being emotionally intelligent is knowing what to look for in the way people act and show their feelings. If you dont know what your looking for then it will be nearly impossible to act accordingly. This story showed how there are physical problems that show some people do not know how to read feelings and empathize. I think that although it is important for people to be socially aware, there are some exceptions when people physically can not be.