Reasons: The Power Of Emotional Intelligence?

The Power of Emotional Intelligence
A child learns to perceive and interact with the world in a number of different ways. One of the major ways through which children receive knowledge and experience are their parents. By observing their parent’s emotional reactions to different situations, in addition to noticing their facial expressions, and following their verbal and nonverbal prescriptions, children tend to adopt a network of social norms and behaviors. Children can then use these new found behaviors to interact with the world surrounding them. At the same time, children can learn to express themselves, understand themselves, and form their self-esteem from their parents’ personal reactions to their wants, needs, actions, and emotions.

There are many possible definitions, one of which states that emotional intelligence is, “the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others.” Having this kind of intelligence requires one to be able to recognize and understand the meaning of emotions and their relationships. It is often thought that are there are three skill included in this type of intelligence, one, “emotional awareness,” two, “the ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving,” and three, “the ability to manage emotions, which includes regulating your own emotions and cheering up or calming down other people.” (“Emotional Intelligence”). The importance of this concept is described by psychologist Daniel Goleman in his Harvard Business Review article, What Makes a Leader, “The most effect leaders are all alike in one crucial way: they all have a high degree of what has come to known as emotional intelligence. It’s not that IQ and technical skills are irrelevant. They do matter, but...they are the entry-level requirements…” He continues that, “without it, a person can have the best training in the world, an incisive, analytic mind, and an endless supply of smart ideas, but he still won’t make a great leader.” (CITE) Regrettably, having a developed and mature emotional intelligence remains to be a privilege accessible primarily to only a limited statistic of people. Even for many of

Alternatively, they will attempt, and most likely will succeed, to figure out what lies beneath each emotion. They will strive to find who and what caused the emotion, what it truly means, what need it points towards, and what they can do to let that emotion go. Sadness will slow a person down, allowing their nervous system time to heal, forcing them to re-evaluate their values, needs, and sensations, and letting them store their energy so they will soon be able to move on from the feeling. Anger is pure energy. This emotion has the ability to give a person the strength to overcome obstacles, move toward their goal, and help them defend themselves either physically or psychologically. Envy can become a motivator for any person to put more effort towards achieving anything they want - or at least make visible their true needs. Fear functions as an alarm system, preserving a person from getting into trouble. Finally, joy and happiness make a person feel better, giving them energy and aiding them in preserving behaviors that were effective in achieving any of their goals or satisfying their