Psy 220 Week 4 Martha Stewart

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DMC PSY/220 Week 4 checkpoint-Intelligence versus Wisdom A good example of an intelligent person that made some unwise choices in her life would be Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart is a successful business woman, author, publisher, television personality and American icon. She is an intelligent and educated woman; building her empire herself, and becoming a very successful woman despite many struggles. However, Martha Stewart made some incredibly un-intelligent choices regarding her stock market dealings resulting in imprisonment and some personal embarrassment. To be more specific, Martha Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, making false statements in a federal trial, and obstruction of justice over the sale of ImClone Systems stock at an incredibly critical time. She sold her stock with the assistance of an illegal tip that the FDA was rejecting; this was her ImClone cancer drug called Erbitux which was for sale. Her decisions were obviously due to a severe lack of personal judgment and decision making skills. She clearly lacked successful and emotional intelligence which would explain the choices she made that led to the conviction. Martha Stewart did not give up easily or admit to guilt willingly. She seemed to be allowing her emotions to take over and rule her decision making and reasoning. She even fabricated lies to cover her illegal activities and actions which further implicated her and eventually led to the discovery of her actions. In all, her wise and educated background seemed to be temporarily drowned out by a combination of greed, bad judgments and unwise decisions. She made decisions that were rash, without considering the consequences of her actions. She faced severe consequences for her actions, I hope that she learned from them and uses her emotional and successful intelligence to reach a wiser decision next time, and hopefully
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