Emotional Intelligence: How to Improve Your IQ, Achieve Self-Awareness and Control Your Emotions

By Joshua Strachan

Emotional Intelligence: How to Improve Your IQ, Achieve Self-Awareness and Control Your Emotions

This book provides information about emotional intelligence and its application in real life circumstances.

Emotional intelligence is the most important part of personality and career development. Starting from self-awareness, social control and the influence in the modern world, emotional intelligence overpowers education and provides a platform for feelings to aid decision making and enhance problem-solving capacity.

Happiness, sense of satisfaction and motivations depend on the way you handle your emotions and the methods used in releasing them. Your communication and the effect you create in your personal and business relationship is also determined by the degree of your emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence teaches how to demonstrate self-awareness and provides for the right response that influences social behavior and perceptions.

Here are some of the things you will learn:

Secrets of unlocking the emotional genius

How to understand and control the emotions of others

Methods of using emotional intelligence in building personal intimacy and maximizing career productivity

How to use your feelings and emotions to communicate effectively, improve social skills and emotional self-awareness

Application of emotional intelligence in business leadership and turning negative emotions into your greatest achievement

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Joshua Daniel
• Release date: Nov 25, 2018

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Introduction

Emotional intelligence is a form of social intelligence that allows individuals to ascertain their emotions and make decisions based on how it affects other people. It is an intelligence that uses emotions to guide a way of thinking, perceptions, productivity, plans, adaption, management and information processing. The emotional intelligence becomes very important in achieving success in the social settings because of the ability to understand others’ emotions and making decisions based on how they relate to your own particular emotions.

Having high EI is very important in securing good job, having high productivity, greater social intelligence, control of emotions, high IQ and greater leadership skills. Emotional intelligence makes you the master of your own environment and if utilized with wisdom will give you control over people’s emotions as well as their mental attitude.

Emotional intelligence brings about superiority in relating with other people regardless of their social classes or professional make up. It also provides the ability to bring people of different professional levels together, to make them work together on a given goal.

The different models of emotional intelligence include the ability, mixed and trait models. The ability model involves the ability of one to ascertain emotions, get in touch with emotions, think about them and allowing the thoughts to enhance one’s ability to judge or make clear decisions. The mixed models involve empathy, social skills, self-regulation, self-awareness and motivation. The trait model involves individual’s intrapersonal and interpersonal attributes such as better social relations, better academic achievement, family and intimate relationships, high positivity about self and others, social relationships with other adults and even better relationship with kids.

Taking these attributes into consideration, one must take the time to understand the essence and the places to acknowledge the importance of the use of certain awareness techniques in order to achieve a confirmed emotional intelligence.

What emotional intelligence is:

It is the ability to understand that happiness and sadness determine whether an individual is going to act according to instructions or not. For example, happiness makes people hyperactive and less critical about a certain invitation or instructions.

It is the ability for one to know and be able to manage his or her emotions without involving external support.

It is the ability to understand when a sad person wants to be alone or when an angry person can act rashly or even destroy things. Emotional intelligence provides ideas on how to act towards different emotions not to avoid havoc but to change negativity into a breakthrough.

It is the ability to understand and analyze things when you are sad. Emotional intelligence actualizes effective analytical thoughts relating to the sadness emotions. So a person with high EI tends to analyze situations better when sad.

Specific but unfamiliar types of thinking are promoted through EI, especially when the emotions don’t come often in their lives.

It is also the ability to understand people’s emotions based on their facial expressions instead of the common verbal analysis. This comes handy when the need arise to solve emotional problems that involves several individuals with difference influences.

Emotional information is clearly put into test and the individual is able to bring together different characters, attributes and actions into play to aid an emotional response.

It demonstrates self-awareness and provides for the right response that influences social behavior and perceptions.

What emotional intelligence is not:

Emotional intelligence is not motivation:

Motivation is affected only by external elements. Although motivation is part of the mental and emotional process, emotional intelligence only actualizes understanding but cannot serve as a source of motivation.

Emotional intelligence is not calmness

Calmness can only be achieved when one exposes himself to environmental experiences and mindfulness. Calmness has more to do with the mind than the emotions. EI can prove futile in achieving calmness when the mind is not clear of clutters and thoughts that can trigger negative emotions.

Emotional intelligence is not happiness

Inducing happiness is common in the modern psychology but emotional intelligence is not part of the manipulation. Although being aware and making the right decisions based on analysis of emotions can bring about good feeling, happiness emotions are not guaranteed since the right decisions can make you sad sometimes.

Emotional intelligence is not optimism

Optimism is a personality trait that can be cultivated through persistence and patience. Emotional intelligence can give you the pros and cons; it gives you the determinants of an action based on the emotions of other people and the how you feel at the moment.

Emotional intelligence is not agreeableness

The good thing about EI is the capability to ascertain on the emotional outcome of particular actions which makes one agree or disagree with the initiation of instructions or thought patterns. Emotional intelligence does not make you agree with everything, it makes you intelligent enough to agree with things that will be beneficial to your emotional satisfaction and disagree with ineffective or negative actions.

How to Unlock Your Emotional Genius