Emotional Intelligence - a psychology guide

Hello Steemians, lets talk about emotional intelligence. This is an aspect in life every human being should take very serious. It is important in relationships and everyday human interaction and a lot of people would not realise they don't have much of it, because of not paying attention.

Emotional intelligence can be said to be the ability to recognise your emotions, understand what theu are telling you, and realise how your emotions affect people around you. It also involves your perception of others(how they feel), when you understand how they feel, this allows you to manage relationships more effectively.

IMPORTANCE
Emotional intelligence is a great human tool which can be used for leadership, self-motivation, maintaining a relationship (romantic or social, teaching skills, social welfare management, treatment of patients(in medicine) etc.

A number of people can be found to suffer lack of emotional intelligence(not like its a medical condition) if a proper research is done. Although there are ways that emotional intelligence of a himan can be improved upon, which are as follows;

• Watch how you react to people - You shouldn't rush to judgement before you know all the facts.

• Try out a self-evaluation- Find out your weaknesses, accept that you are not perfect and you could work on some areas of your flaws to make yourself a better person.

• Take responsibility for your actions- If you hurt someone's feelings, apologise directly and admit your fault.

• Know how certain actions you take will affect others before taking them.

• Humility can be a huge quality- Practice alot of humility, it doesn't mean that you are shy or lack self confidence. Say you know what you are doing and be confident about it.

• Study how you react to stressful situations- The ability to stay calm and in control in difficult situations is highly valued.

To conclude this, people with high emotional intelligence tend to be more successful in things they embark on. This is because, they are the ones others want in their team and they go through life much more easily than people who tend to be easily angered or upset.

So, how is your emotional intelligence today?