RAISING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand the various feelings that both you and the other people in your life are having. It is the ability to use those feeling to your advantage instead of being thrown by them.

Here’s a quote from Daniel Goleman, the author of the best seller EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. “Much evidence testifies that people who are emotionally adept – who know and manage their own feelings well, and read and deal effectively with other people’s feelings – are at an advantage in any domain of life, whether romance and intimate relationships, or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.

People with well-developed emotional skill are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity. People who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought.”

Emotional intelligence seems to be much more learnable than intellectual intelligence. I see myself as a teacher of emotional skills and a raiser of emotional intelligence.