Emotional Intelligence 2.0 : Why it Matters More Than IQ Paperback / softback

by Kathrin Deshotels

Part of the Emotional Intelligence series

Paperback / softback

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Being mindful of and displaying Emotional intelligence ensures that you are aware of your emotions and your reactions to them, as well as to be able to evaluate and understand the emotions of other people. These days, there are many companies are using it as a factor in their hiring practices, trying to see if people are empathetic or not. If you take the time to improve your emotional skills, it can improve your personal and your professional life, and it is a great way help you to strengthen relationships, become mindful and improve your communication. When you have emotional intelligence, you should be an expert at building and improving your ability to manage your emotions and connect with others.

An emotionally intelligent individual is both highly conscious of their own emotional, even negativity, frustration, sadness, or anything else negative, has the ability to identify and manage them. These types of people can easily sense the emotions that others experience, because they are so tuned into their own. When you show sensitivity to the emotions of others, both from within yourself and from your actual social environment, this can help you to become a better friend, leader, or mate to your romantic partner.

The good news is, that these skills can be learned as well as tuned up, some of the most intelligent people on this earth, are the most unfulfilled and unhappy individuals in this world. We all know someone who may academically brilliant, but when it comes to their social status, they are not successful at all, and many of them have unhealthy and toxic personal relationships. Your intellectual ability is not enough by itself for you to achieve real success and happiness, you need to be emotionally intelligent as well, which will help to balance out your life. You may have a high IQ, which will help you get into college, but having emotional intelligence, will be what helps you learn to manage the stress and different emotions that you have to deal with when facing the challenges of life. It would be great to have an equal balance of both emotional intelligence as well as a high IQ, this way they will consistently build off of each other in order to make you a complete individual.