The You Beyond You

The New Humanism - NYTimes.com:

"...You get a different view of, say, human capital. Over the past few decades, we have tended to define human capital in the narrow way, emphasizing I.Q., degrees, and professional skills. Those are all important, obviously, but this research illuminates a range of deeper talents, which span reason and emotion and make a hash of both categories:

Attunement: the ability to enter other minds and learn what they have to offer.

Equipoise: the ability to serenely monitor the movements of one’s own mind and correct for biases and shortcomings.

Metis: the ability to see patterns in the world and derive a gist from complex situations.

Sympathy: the ability to fall into a rhythm with those around you and thrive in groups.

Limerence: This isn’t a talent as much as a motivation. The conscious mind hungers for money and success, but the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line falls away and we are lost in love for another, the challenge of a task or the love of God. Some people seem to experience this drive more powerfully than others..."

After spending decades in higher education, I can testify that there are those people who may not have the testing, writing, or speaking skills so highly valued in today's world, but who nevertheless possess interpersonal skills far beyond their peers. These are the people who should be managing the affairs of the world because they possess both empathy and compassion and, more importantly, can project those traits to others. You can name a very few of these people of the world stage today. History yields a few more. Yes, Jesus was one of them.