4 ms·
"emotional honesty" Emotional honesty is pretty simple. Will you speak up when necessary, even if it contradicts peers or the leader? What was the last time yo
by bootload 11y ago
"emotional honesty"
Emotional honesty is pretty simple. Will you speak up when necessary, even if it contradicts peers or the leader? What was the last time you told the boss, "this is a stupid idea Boss, change it, or this will happen" and then the boss does so without recrimination? Remember the outcome, not ego matters.
As for the field of medicine, of which I know nothing about, in Melbourne (Aus), selection into health sciences is filtered by both self awareness, emotional maturity and smarts via both academic results, independent Uni examination (Monash) and panel interview. This the "spectrum" filter for those sufficiently smart enough to get through the academics, yet are more suited to research.
Could you teach MDs to program and work at google? Probably. Could you teach the clinical skills MDs require to make medical decisions on patients to Google SEs? Probably not.
Doctors work with people. Google engineers work with languages and data on silicon.
- skewart 11y agoIt sounds like the requirements for becoming a doctor in Australia are quite a bit different than those in the US.
- groby_b 11y agoAs it turns out, Google engineers maybe don't work with people, but they sure work with a lot of other Google engineers ;) The idea that software engineering is a solitary activity done in a cave by antisocial hermits is at least 20 years out of date - so let's let it go. But that aside - your reply has nothing to do with what the studies I shared demonstrated: Emotional awareness is teachable. Your idea that it isn't seems entirely based on your personal assumptions. (If you have actual evidence, please share) As for "emotional honesty" - that's pretty much the same as honesty, no? There's no emotional component to it.
- icebraining 11y agoWhy is it "emotional" honesty? What differentiates it from plain honesty?