Emotional Intelligence - How They Determine Our Success
By Dan Miller
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Emotional intelligence is an interesting subject because it teaches and trains us to better relate with other people. With the pace at which the world is fast becoming a global village, it is essential that you learn how to listen and interpret information coming to you from others. This will in turn help you in structuring your response.
While many people confuse emotional intelligence and intelligence quotient, this book makes it clear that intelligence quotient is a subset of emotional intelligence. When you learn how to command your emotions, you will exercise more control over your life and unlock opportunities that would have otherwise remained hidden. Emotional maturity is something that every one of us is working towards attaining. This means that you should not be discouraged and sidetracked but rather press on and aggressively pursue your emotional goals to their final end.
Dan Miller
Dan Miller, president of 48 Days, specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He is the author of the widely acclaimed 48 Days to The Work You Love and No More Dreaded Mondays. He writes for many popular magazines and web portals, has been a guest on CBS, MSNBC, The 700 Club, and The Dave Ramsey Show, and appears frequently on popular radio programs. Dan has been happily married to Joanne for more than forty-four years.
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Emotional Intelligence - How They Determine Our Success - Dan Miller
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Table of Contents
1: What Is Emotional Intelligence
2: Benefits of Emotional Intelligence
3: How to Identify and Deal with Emotional Triggers
4: Taking Responsibility and Setting Personal Boundaries
5: The Importance of Meditation in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence
6: How to Raise Your Emotional Intelligence
7: Keys to Commanding Your Emotions
8: Emotional Control and Anger Management
9: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Resolution
10: Mastering Interpersonal Skills for Emotional Intelligence
11: How to Improve Your Emotional Health
Important Insight
Everyone is confronted by our own emotions in addition to those of other people. The manner in which we manage these emotions will determine how other people perceive us and our effectiveness in getting things done. By increasing our emotional intelligence, we will be better equipped to respond to situations around us with a high degree of maturity.
Studies by renowned researchers such as John Mayer, Peter Salovey and Konstantin Vasily Petrides have shown that people who have a high emotional intelligence become better leaders and are exemplary in whatever they do.
In his doctoral thesis entitled - A study of Emotion: Developing Emotional Intelligence, Wayne Payne became the first person to use the term emotional intelligence. Compared to intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence appears to be superior because it covers a wide range of faculties and aspects of people’s behavior.
Studying emotional intelligence will help you understand the source and impact of your emotions. This is important because it enhances self awareness. You will also have an opportunity to understand the behavior of other people and the underlying reasons why they act the way they do.
Conflict management borrows heavily from emotional intelligence. By understanding the emotional needs of other people, you will be better placed to handle conflicts and resolve them in a manner that benefits every party. When conflicts are resolved amicably, they give you an opportunity to establish even stronger relationships and social bonds. A mastery of interpersonal skills such as listening, verbal communication, non-verbal communication, self management and assertiveness will make you gain trust and respect from others thereby becoming an influential person in social circles.
1: What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to identify, understand, use and manage emotions in a positive manner so as to enhance communication, relieve stress, overcome challenges, empathize with others and defuse conflict. The scope of emotional intelligence is wide and covers many different aspects of our daily lives such as the way in which we behave and interact with others.
An emotional intelligent person is able to recognize his own emotional state as well as the emotional states of other people. This makes him attractive and draws other people towards him. Having a clear understanding of the emotional states of the people you interact with will help you to relate well with them, achieve greater success at the workplace, form healthier relationships and lead a more satisfying life.
Compared to intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence is considered more important in attaining happiness and success in life and career. Our ability to read and interpret other people’s signals and respond appropriately to them determines how far we can go in our individual and professional pursuit of success.
It is therefore important that every one of us develop a mature emotional intelligence framework that will help us to understand, negotiate and empathize with others. This is particularly important because the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and as such we are constantly exposed to cultural shocks from different parts of the globe.
Categories of Emotional Intelligence
Researchers in the area of emotional intelligence recognize the existence of five major classes of emotional intelligence skills.
Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is the ability to recognize your emotions and the impact