from matadornetwork.com(which is also credited for the picture below), found, i, the 48 epic dream hotel to visit before you die which, i would say, is worth reading (and watching the pictures). what hit me though is the dedon island resort: a resort in my own country which i didn't even know existed. so, without further ado -
The Architecture of Self: Metacognition, Emotional Intelligence, and the Dynamic Control System Within
I. The Right Question Most discussions of Emotional Intelligence treat it as a companion to cognition — a soft counterpart to the harder work of reasoning. Most discussions of metacognition treat it as a neutral, elevated faculty: the mind watching itself from a clean remove. Both assumptions are wrong. The productive question is not whether EQ and metacognition matter — they clearly do — but what is the structural relationship between them, and more precisely: what regulates what, under which conditions? That question — not "what serves what?" but "what governs what, and when?" — is the organizing principle of this framework. It reframes the entire discussion from static hierarchy to dynamic control architecture. Everything that follows depends on that shift. II. The Conventional View and Its Limits The standard position holds that EQ and metacognition are co-equal, mutually reinforcing capacities. EQ supplies the affective sensitivity that keeps cognition ...