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Emotional intelligence

lexithymia is a condition characterised by the inability to name emotions. The term usually applies to individuals, for whom dozens of books on emotional intelligence have been written. Peter Salovey and John Mayer coined the term in 1990, and Daniel Goleman made it famous five years later in his best-selling book,. In 2013, Susan David replaced ‘intelligence’ with ‘agility’ to create the similar concept: Emotional Agility. Finally, in 2019, Marc Brackett published which explains the evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that he created at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Today, there is little doubt about the importance of identifying our emotions, naming them,

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