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Emotional Intelligence
EQ and IQ
IQ emphasises only certain aspects of intelligence, such as logical reasoning, math skills, spatial skills and verbal skills. Researchers found that while IQ could predict to a significant degree academic performance, some of those with high IQ were performing poorly in life.
One of the major missing parts in the success equation is emotional intelligence. For various reasons people with high emotional intelligence [EQ] tend to be more successful in life than those with lower EQ - even if their IQ is only average.
| Emotional Intelligence | |
| Emotional Literacy | The ability to recognize how you and those around you are feeling. Can identify emotions in music, and art. Being able to discuss and communicate emotions clearly and directly. |
| Empathy | The ability to empathize with, feel compassion for, validate, motivate, inspire, encourage and soothe others. Being emotional, and being able to use your emotions may also help you to understand how someone else feels, or to take emotional sides. |
| Emotional Thinking | The ability to make intelligent decisions using a healthy balance of emotion and reason. Being neither too emotional nor too rational. The ability to generate an emotion and then reason with this emotion. Considering multiple perspectives is another part of Emotional Intelligence. |
| Understanding Emotions | Understanding Emotions refers to knowing what happens as emotions get stronger, or how people react to different emotions. The ability to understand complex emotions and "emotional chains" where emotions move from one stage to another. |
| Regulating Emotions | Regulating Emotions means that you feel the feeling rather than repressing it and then use the feeling to make a better decision. The ability to manage and take responsibility for one's own emotions, especially the responsibility for self-motivation and personal happiness. |
Emotional Intelligence does not operate in isolation. Emotional Intelligence also works with emotional styles such as extroversion, warmth and emotionality. You can be emotionally intelligent whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, warm or aloof, emotional or calm.
On-Line Emotional Intelligence Test
Emotional Intelligence is a concept made popular by the book by Daniel Goleman, which is based on research by Peter Salovey, John Meyer, Howard Gardner, Robert Sternberg and Jack Block.