5 Ways to Build Emotional Intelligence

The Mission Newsletter, 6/20/18

There are five key ways to build emotional intelligence. In today’s episode, Chad and Ian take you through each one so you can become a Chief Emotional Officer and achieve success by mastering your feelings.

Today’s newsletter is brought to you by our friends at Vemo Education.

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University of Missouri researchers have discovered that rodents whose grandparents were exposed to BPA (bisphenol A, an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1960s) had different vocalization patterns than those whose grandparents were not exposed.

This development could have parallels to humans. Scientists have linked BPA exposure to numerous medical conditions, and if vocal patterns are affected, those patterns can be used in diagnostic efforts moving forward.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper has had his proposal approved that calls for splitting California into three states. The proposal will appear on California ballots in the general election in November.

By splitting California into three separate states, proponents argue that the smaller areas would be better able to serve their citizens on issues like education and infrastructure. The proposal would divide California into populations of between 12.3 and 13.9 million people.

Even if the proposal is approved by voters in the state, the likelihood of the split is still small. Congress would have to approve the measure.

Researchers studying poker players in an attempt to understand strategic decision-making have reached some interesting conclusions.

Basically, those who can use private information to manipulate opponents and then read the behavior of those opponents in order to conceal their own strategy regarding public information are more likely to succeed.

Can you out debate this robot? 🤖

IBM has created a technology called Project Debater, which is specifically programmed to become an expert in a particular subject, present a position about that subject, and then defend it against two humans practiced in debate.

In a test of the tech, Debater won one of the debates but lost another. To prepare, programmers fed Debater with best practices and strategies for debates, but it was not given the details of the specific debate it would engage in until the debate happened. Once that information was input immediately prior to squaring off against the humans, Debater could access 300 million news articles and scholarly papers to develop an argument, which it then had to articulate.

Debater speaks in a computerized female voice and is equipped with jokes to provide comic relief. It is even able to anticipate arguments from the other side and preemptively defend them.

According to new research out of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, fewer people are turning to Facebook for their news.

In just the past year, the site has experienced a 9% drop in the amount of Americans who go there for news. Globally, Facebook has seen a 6% drop as a news source since 2016. Instead, people are reporting that they turning toward Whatsapp, SnapChat, and Instagram, each of which has seen an uptick in folks viewing news-related content.

The reason for the shift? Likely privacy issues.

Virtual reality could change the face of education.

A new study suggests that using VR helps with learning and memory more than using a tablet or computer. In a test that compared those using VR to complete a memory task to those who used a computer interface, the VR group fared better.

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