The term "emotional intelligence" may sound odd.

「情感智慧」這個詞或許聽起來很奇怪。

We're used to referring to intelligence just as a general quality without unpicking a particular variety a person might possess.

畢竟我們習慣稱智慧為一般能力，我們不把智慧視為某一種類的人才才擁有的能力。

And, therefore, we don't tend to highlight the value of a distinctive sort of intelligence which currently does not enjoy the prestige it should.

所以我們不會特別強調智慧的價值，也致使智慧至今未能享受該有的認可。

Every sort of intelligence signals an ability to navigate well around a particular set of challenges: mathematical, linguistic, technical, commercial.

每一種智慧都各別象徵著一種應對特定挑戰的能力：數學、語言、科技、商業。

When we say that someone is clever, but add that they've made a mess of their personal lives or that they've acquired a fortune but are restless and sad or that they are powerful but intolerant and unimaginative,

當我們稱一個人是聰明的，但人生卻一團亂，或是他們擁有財富，卻不滿足又悲傷， 或是他們很強大卻心胸狹隘又缺乏想像力的時候，

we're pointing to a deficit in what deserves to be called "emotional intelligence".

我們指的是他缺乏情感智慧。

In social life, we can feel the presence of emotional intelligence in a sensitivity to the moods of others and in a readiness to grasp the surprising things that may be going on for other people beneath the surface.

在社交生活中，我們可以透過感受到他人的情緒，以及領會他人表面行為之下可能的真實意義，感覺到情感智慧的存在。

Emotional intelligence recognizes a role for interpretation and knows that, for example, a fiery outburst might be a disguised plea for help or that a long political rant may be provoked by hunger or that concealed within a forceful jolliness may be a sorrow that has been sentimentally disavowed.

情感智慧扮演解讀的角色，並幫助我們了解暴走的情緒可能是請求幫助的暗示、政治性的怒吼可能是由飢餓所引起、過度高興的情緒可能隱藏強烈的悲傷。

In relation to ourselves, emotional intelligence shows up in a skepticism around our emotions, especially those of love, desire, anger, envy, anxiety, and professional ambition.

回到我們本身，情感智慧能讓我們免於受情緒主導，並對我們的情緒保持合理程度的懷疑，尤其是在愛、渴望、憤怒、嫉妒、焦慮及事業好勝心方面。

The emotionally intelligent refuse to just trust their first impulses or the inherent wisdom of their feelings.

擁有情感智慧的人，不會輕易相信第一直覺或受感情因素影響。

They know that hatred may mask love, that anger may be a cover for sadness, and that we are prone to huge and costly inaccuracies around whom we desire and what we really want.

他們知道恨可能代表愛、生氣可能隱藏著悲傷、還有我們傾向於擁抱我們不該渴望的對象或事物。

Emotional intelligence is also what distinguishes those who are crushed by failure from those who know how to greet the troubles of existence with a melancholy and, at points, darkly humorous resilience.

情感智慧也可以被用來區辨哪些人會被挫折擊敗以及哪些人會以黑色幽默來面對錯誤。

The emotionally intelligent appreciate the role of well-handled pessimism within the overall economy of a good life.

擁有情感智慧，代表著那個人能夠良好地處理整體人生中的悲傷。

Emotional intelligence isn't an inborn talent.

情感智慧不是與生俱來的天賦。

It's always the result of education, specifically, education in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotions arise from, in how our childhoods influence us, and in how we might best navigate our fears and our wishes.

它一直都是教育的結果，特別是在如何解讀自己、了解我們的情緒從哪裏來、 我們的童年如何影響我們以及我們如何面對我們的恐懼及希望。

In the ideal society, it would be routine to be taught emotional intelligence from the youngest age, before we'd had the opportunity to make too many mistakes.

在理想的社會中，情感教育應該是從小就有的教育，以扮演防止我們犯下許多錯誤的防線角色。

It's because we have, until now, not taken emotional education seriously enough, that our species has grown ever more technically adept while retaining the level of wisdom of our earliest days, with catastrophic results.

然而，因為我們直到現在都沒有認真重視過情感教育，導致人類在成長過程中，只掌握了技術能力，而我們的智慧卻還停留在非常早期的階段，引發災難性的結果。

We are now evolved monkeys with nuclear weapons.

我們是持有核能武器的進化版猴類。

It appears that the fate of civilization depends on our capacity to master the mechanisms of emotional education before it's too late.

這意味著，我們掌握情緒技巧與否，將會主宰人類命運的走向。

An emotional education means something far beyond just normal education as we've conceived of it to date.

情感教育的影響力絕對超越我們自行定義的正規教育。

Though it should ideally include courses in every year of school or college, emotional education is more than something that should just take place in classrooms at the hands of teachers and come to a halt around the age of 21.

雖然最理想的做法是讓學生在學校或大學持續接受情感教育，不過，情感教育不該僅限於教室 並停止於人類 21 歲時。

The central vehicle for the transfer of emotional intelligence is culture, from its highest to its most popular level.

推行情感教育最合適的方式是從文化下手，無論是高雅文化還是通俗文化。

Culture is the field that can ritualize and consistently promote the absorption of emotional intelligence.

文化是一個可以被儀式化，且可以持續推廣情感智慧的媒介。

The lessons might be embedded in a tragedy or a TV series, a pop song or a novel, a work of architecture, or a YouTube film.

我們可以通過一部悲劇或電視影集、一首流行歌曲或小說、一棟建築大樓或是 YouTube 影片推廣情感教育。

We can envisage the entire apparatus of culture as a subtle mechanism designed to point us towards greater emotional intelligence.

我們可以把文化變成一種教育機制，在人們不知不覺中，獲得情感教育的澆灌。

We will never progress as a species, and will indeed grow into ever greater technologically armed menaces to ourselves until we've accepted the challenges and opportunities of properly educating ourselves in emotional intelligence.

除非我們承認我們需要接受情感教育的事實並接受適當的教育，否則我們人類將停止前進，繼續前進的只剩建基在技術上的武器裝備。

Our technical intelligence is great, of course; it's led us to tame nature and conquer this planet.

無可否認，我們的技術智慧很偉大，它引領我們馴服自然、征服地球。

But a wiser, saner future for the human race must depend on a capacity to master and then seductively teach one another the rudiments of emotional intelligence.

但要為人類建設一個更賢明、更健全的未來，我們就必須要掌握情感智慧，並且在人類之間以誘導的方式教學情感智慧。

While there is still time.

趁一切還來得及的時候。

Thank you for watching, liking, and subscribing.

感謝你的收看、按讚及訂閱。

If you want more, why not visit us in person and attend a class?

如果想要學習更多，何不親自來拜訪我們，或者來參與課程？

Or take a look at our shop at the link on your screen now?

或是參考我們附上的連結。