There is a concept that I touch upon in my
book, The Life Champion In You,
called emotional intelligence that I consider very important for
achieving success. Emotional intelligence is about how we manage
our actions with both others and ourselves as a result of the emotions
we feel. The whole premise is that we all feel an emotion as a
result of an event or circumstance before we think about it. That
is, we feel before we think.
Unfortunately, once we experience a feeling, we also tend to react in
the form of an action before we actually think about them. This
is basically doing without thinking as an automatic reaction.
This can cause all sorts of sudden actions as a result of bad judgments
because we haven't allowed enough time to put in adequate thought
first. These overreactions are often actions that we later
regret. Many personal conflicts and wars have been started
because of this type of overreaction, which is basically a lack of
emotional intelligence.
This
whole area of emotional intelligence has been a real exciting one in
certain corporate circles because of the potential positive impact on
company performance. Education on emotional intelligence is now
part of many programs on training corporate leaders to become more
effective. Because of the way emotional intelligence can play
such a significant role in the way people work with one another and
therefore affecting corporate profits, the business world jumped into
this concept.
An individual with high emotional intelligence reacts after both
feeling an emotion and thinking about an event. Others with less
developed emotional intelligence would often react only after feeling
the emotion without much thinking. Interestingly enough,
emotional intelligence doesn't always come hand in hand with standard
intelligence and vice versa. That is, extremely smart people can
have low emotional intelligence while others who are not so gifted in
standard IQ can exhibit relatively high emotional intelligence.
I was watching the Larry King show on TV one night when former
President Bill Clinton was interviewed. President Clinton said
that one of the best things we can teach our youth is that sometimes
bad things can happen to us and we have no control over them - I shot
an entire episode of
Motivational WebTV
on this. However, what we do have control over is how we
react or respond to these bad things. This is basically emotional
intelligence.
Emotional
intelligence affects how one behaves with oneself as well as with other
people, especially during conflicts. This is why emotional
intelligence has become especially important in leadership
training. It is generally thought that although standard
intelligence or IQ is a given that can't really be altered, emotional
intelligence is something that can be developed through
training. This is why corporate seminars on emotional
intelligence were developed for company executives.
But
the implications of emotional intelligence in personal life are equally
significant as in the business world. Improvements in emotional
intelligence can result in better personal relationships between
people. One can only imagine just how many marriages and other
family relationships as well as broken friendships can be saved if
people had more training in emotional intelligence.
A
rough indicator or emotional intelligence test that one could use is
that if you have been involved in too many conflicts with others in a
way that had some pretty high emotions, chances are that you could use
some improvement in emotional intelligence.
So as long as we are all dealing with others in our everyday lives, emotional intelligence is a very important concept in order to be successful in life.
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