An Idiot is a person whose rational intellect is compromised or overridden by their emotional needs.
I.D.I.O.T. is an acronym for ID Is Out There or ID Is On Top.
The ID is our sub-conscious sense of ego self. Responsible for instinctively getting our emotional needs met. I am driven sub-consciously to get my emotional needs met until I become consciously aware of what I need emotionally.
Being unaware of my emotional needs is normal but not idiotic. It is when I am driven to meet my emotional needs in an irrational way that I am being an idiot and behaving like an idiot.
Every addiction is a substitute for emotional power. When I am obsessively driven to meet my need for emotional energy, with an addictive substance or in an addictive way, I am an idiot.
Idiotic behaviour overrides my sane, logical, rational, intellect when:
- I know that drinking alcohol is damaging my liver
- I know that binge eating fat & sugar makes me fat & lethargic
- I know that prescription drugs are not curing my illness
- I know that smoking tobacco is a health risk
- I know that working 14 hours a day is slowly killing me
- I know that illegal drugs are banned for a reason
These are just a few examples of our sub-conscious need for emotional power taking precedence over our intellectual reasoning. In a battle between instinct & intellect, instinct instinctively wins.
Intellectual Idiots prove that acting like an idiot is not due to a lack of rational intelligence. Idiotic behaviour is not relative to the lack of rational intelligence but it is relative to the awareness of our emotional intelligence.
An emotionally intelligent idiot is an oxymoron. An emotionally intelligent person is aware of their own emotional needs and consciously meets them efficiently, effectively & effortlessly without the need for any addictive substance.
We live in an idiotic world of emotionally disconnected & insensitive people until we become aware of the joy of our own content fulfilment, expressed with a wealth of personal healthy wisdom.