Two people break down the Will Smith slap at the Oscars as a failure of emotional intelligence. One moment of rage, they argue, can destroy a reputation and financial standing built over decades. The lesson: letting powerful emotions override your judgment costs you everything.
Okay, so I had just made a post, and this is totally unrelated, and it was just out the blue. I seen it somewhere else, I reposted it, and it was like— and I had posted this before some years ago— it said emotional intelligence is when you ignore somebody that you should have swung on. And then about 30 minutes later, I run into this, uh, clip of Will Smith Smacking the shit out of Chris Rock, and this to me is just a clear example. I don't know what triggers Will. Chris Rock makes jokes all the time, but for Will to get up and smack Chris Rock on national TV is a clear example of the lack of emotional intelligence. Check this out.
Jane Two can't wait to see it. All right. That was a that was a nice one. Okay, I'm out here. Oh, Richard! Oh wow! Wow! Will Smith just smacked the shit out of him. Wow, dude! It was a G.I. Jane joke.
Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!
I'm going—
and when I talk about how powerful emotions are, my number one mission is to encourage people to never let their emotions overpower their intelligence. And this is a clear example of letting your emotions overpower your intelligence. But then his anger still got him because now he's on national television talking about keep his wife's name out his mouth. Clearly expressing anger. That is going to cost Will some money, some credibility. That's going to cost him. I'm not here to question whether Will felt like it was justified or not. All I'm saying is when you let your emotions overpower your intelligence, for Will Smith, for the next however, people are going to forget about how smart and talented he is, and all everybody's going to be talking about is how he slapped Chris on national TV. These are the type of mistakes that I'm trying to get people to avoid. You can put in so much work in your life and your career at your job, and in one split moment, everything can change by letting emotions get the best of you.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
