Why Should You Know About Emotional Intelligence
Intelligence is not only the capability to understand and learn things fast. Rather, intelligence is related to a much deeper part of our personality- emotional intelligence. It shapes our decisions, actions and choices.
Emotional intelligence or quotient (EQ) refers to the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to soothe your stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others and overcome challenges. This helps you build stronger relationships, succeed at school and work, and achieve your career and personal goals. It can also help you to connect with your real feelings, change your intentions into action and make informed decisions about what matters most to you.
What Does Emotional Intelligence Constitute
It has 5 components – self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. These 5 components are important to develop EQ among people.
These components help us to decode emotions, observe them, understand them and deal with them.
Impact of Emotional Intelligence in Your Life
Your performance at work place or educational institution – EQ can help you to deal with the social complexities and motivate others, and excel in your career.
Your physical health – Your emotions are attached to your mental health and it affects your physical health. Unnecessary emotional stress can lead to serious health problems like high blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart diseases, speeding up the aging process and various others.
Your mental health – Low EQ makes you vulnerable to anxiety and depression. With better emotional intelligence you have less stress and a happy state of mind.
Your relationships – EQ allows you to communicate more effectively and form stronger relationships and contributes a lot in work and personal life. You can connect better with people and form better relationships around you.
Measuring Emotional Intelligence
There are various ways to know and observe your EQ. Psychologists have developed a variety of scales, quizzes and to measure EI. Abilities based tests , Trait-based tests, Competency-based tests and Behavior-based tests are few of them.
EQis increasingly considered an important component of your adaptability and success.
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