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Hm. I must have dropped the ball, here. I'm talking about a) being *aware* of one's triggers and b) where there are none, *installing* them. You're talking about triggering the way the right wingers talk about it ... as if it's a bad thing. My point in arguing with Steve's position is that reduction, triggering is a Good Thing. Maybe it's a Kierkegaardian argument. IANAP (I am not a philosopher. >8^)

EI isn't about diminishing triggers ... or it shouldn't be, anyway. It should be about being aware of triggers, both yours and others'. The righties' PC problems reflect their trigger-awareness *disability*. It's just too difficult for them to keep track of what pronoun you want others to use ... or whether we have to put stalls around every toilet ... or why can't blatant Nazi's spout their hatred in the square without being ridiculed themselves.

But you don't need to launch into a pompous lecture about EI in order to get people to think reflectively about themselves and others. People have been thinking reflectively for 10,000 years. The self-detection of vague things like degraded performance, insular thinking, etc. *is* about defining and installing particular and specific triggers. That's what I've been trying to claim, however incompetently.


On 2/21/20 10:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I would say one indicator of EI is the ability to control and diminish triggers without ongoing intervention.   It's not an all-or-nothing thing.  But for contrast, what to do when others are prone to triggering and make no effort to regulate?   One way is to create a controlled environment that imposes costs (broadly defined) but limits consequences.  Let them see what an escalated level of triggering looks like -- scare them straight.   That won't work when the person prone to triggering is POTUS.
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> But triggering is only one side of it.   How does one self-detect degraded performance,  insular thinking, habituation?  In the case of depression, the homunculi advisors will be depressed as well.   


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