Manoj's Review on Books

It looks like Ernest Hemingway has an inclination towards anti-climax stories, something that can leave the reader with a heavy heart.  I was wondering what’s the message in the end, isn’t it not a futile exercise to be beaten down every time despite the hard attempt? An old man skilled in deep sea fishing, has been running on dry luck for over 80 days. His neighbouring fishermen are able to get good catches every few days but the old man’s dry days in the sea looked never ending. As being the case, he becomes a ridicule amongst the fishermen community and gets labelled as someone who will never be able to catch any fish. However, the old man keeps his hope intact and ventures into the deep sea for his next attempt. On this attempt, he happens to catch the longest sword fish ever to have caught in his community, measuring eighteen feet in length. The fish keeps him in deep sea for 3 days and 2 nights, emerging to the surface a few times to display it’s enormity and size up the ...

Let me start with a bunch of case studies which will showcase the importance EQ carries in our day to day life, the pressing question however is, does it weigh well over the IQ component. A successful advocate known for his compelling arguments and high win percentage towards his clientele gets a tumour detected on his right hemisphere. He undergoes a surgery to get the tumour removed along with a certain portion of amygdala. In theory, it shouldn’t disturb his life a great deal since the primary function of amygdala is towards detection of threat and the subsequent flight or fight response. However, the advocate lost complete sense of decision-making to a point wherein he couldn’t even decide fixing appointment given a choice of dates. His IQ had compelling reasons for and against both the dates which led to an endless indecisive swing between both the dates. With just a small portion of EQ removed, IQ proves to be useless. Let's take the case of Bell labs, which is world’s re...