A guy explores his pet peeve of line-cutters through the lens of emotional intelligence, tracing it back to a childhood habit of confronting them. He's working on choosing maturity over impulse, and wants to hear what triggers you.
Okay, so I realized that one, there are a few things that I know that I have to work on. And part of practicing emotional intelligence is having a deep understanding of self-awareness. And so one thing that I know that rubs me the wrong way, that I have to be very intentional on how I process it, is when somebody cuts me in line. You know, there are times like when I'm traveling Or at an event where it's always someone who either tries to race and get in front of me, or just like, say if you just standing in the area, they, they position themselves to be in front of you, right? And then don't they— and I'm not even tripping off that, but then they don't acknowledge it, like, so like, like they're entitled to it. What I mean. And then, uh, they may be holding space for other people And then they call their people over. And I had to think about why does that bother me so much? And it comes from back when I was a youngster, like people who cut the line in school got chin checked. And so I think that every time that happens, I feel like that I'm supposed to be chin checking somebody. But of course I have emotional maturity and I don't, but I can think it and I can feel it. I just don't act on it. But I thought it was very interesting. Because most things I just let blow past. I don't even give it a second thought. But that is one of my pain points when it comes to emotional intelligence, my pet peeves, if you will. What pet peeves do you have? What's that one thing that gets you every time that you probably know you need to work on?
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
