In the Know...:What's your emotional IQ?

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What's Your Emotional IQ (EQ...Emotional Quotient) ??

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Emotional intelligence impacts many different aspects of your daily life, such as the way you behave and the way you interact with others.

  

If you have a high emotional intelligence you are able to recognize your own emotional state and the emotional states of others and engage with people in a way that draws them to you. You can use this understanding of emotions to relate better to other people, form healthier relationships, achieve greater success at work, and lead a more fulfilling life. 

Emotional intelligence consists of four attributes:

  

       Self-awareness -- You recognize your own emotions and how they affect your  thoughts and behavior, know your strengths and weaknesses, and have self-confidence.

        Self-management – You’re able to control impulsive feelings and behaviors, manage your emotions in healthy ways, take initiative, follow through on commitments, and adapt to changing circumstances.

        Social awareness – You can understand the emotions, needs, and concerns of other people, pick up on emotional cues, feel comfortable socially, and recognize the power dynamics in a group or organization.

        Relationship management – You know how to develop and maintain good relationships, communicate clearly, inspire and influence others, work well in a team, and manage conflict.

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Ok, after reading that information most people start going inward and thinking about their own EQs or the lack thereof. Let's be honest with ourselves. Many of us lack impulse control (this takes some of us more time than others). In our brains, the frontal lobe governs the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions. Our frontal lobe helps us to suppress socially unacceptable responses. In most humans, the frontal lobe isn't fully developed until about age 25. Think about that...that explains a whole lot for some of us.

As I frequent the world of social media, I can see people WELL over the age of 25 with very low EQs and I wonder what in the blue hell is going on? Is technology actually making some of us regress? Or is technology just allowing us to see how pervasive low EQs are. Please don't confuse EQ with IQ. There are many people with high IQs who have low EQs.

What is your emotional intelligence? The higher the EQ, the more successful the person.

Take an EQ test here http://www.maetrix.com.au/meit/eitest.html

Let the journey to self-development begin!!

  

Papa Robbie is an educator, reggae artist, husband, father, and full time narcissist.