PART 3

• Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ, is a person's ability to recognize and manage their emotions.
• Emotional Intelligence is the ability to manage feelings so that they are expressed appropriately and effectively, enabling people to work together smoothly toward common goals.
• The top three feelings that I like to have most are joy, love, and peace.
• Joy is a feeling of great happiness.
• Love is a feeling of deep affection.
• Peace is a feeling of calmness and serenity.
• An emotion is an inner realization or feeling of, for example, joy, anger, fear, or sadness.
• Emotions are an engagement to act and a tendency to do things.
• Robert Plutchik theorized that emotions are multi-dimensional or having various intensities, identified these as: adoration, ecstasy, anticipation, rage, disgust, grief, surprise and fear.
• Each of these eight basic emotions have varying intensities starting with the most intense at the center with the most intense colors to the least intense of emotions within that category.
• Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist.
• For twelve years, Goleman wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences.
• Plutchik’s Wheel of emotions is a model that categorizes emotions into eight basic categories: anger, sadness, fear, enjoyment, love, surprise, disgust, and shame.
• Emotional self-awareness is a component of emotional intelligence where you can interpret and identify your emotions as well as acknowledge their effect on your work performance and relation with others.
• Self-confidence is a component of emotional intelligence where you have a strong and positive sense of self-worth.
• Accurate self-awareness is a component of emotional intelligence where you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses.
• Self-control is a component of emotional intelligence where you have the ability to keep troublesome emotions and impulses under control.
• Adaptability is a component of emotional intelligence where you have flexibility to adjust to changing situations and overcome challenges.
• Transparency is a component of emotional intelligence which involves upholding standards of honesty, integrity and managing yourself and responsibilities.
• Empathy means being able to know how other people are feeling and responding to them accordingly.
• Taking time to recognize how you feel about experiences is important in improving your EQ.
• Apologizing if you offend or hurt someone’s feelings is a part of being accountable for your actions.
• Listening to your instinctive reactions to situations you encounter every day instead of just responding without any thought is a part of monitoring how your emotions and behavior are linked.
• Being alert to the physical symptoms of your emotions involves knowing the physical signs that give hints of the emotions you are experiencing.
• Discovering your weaknesses is a part of self-evaluation.
• Practicing being emotionally honest involves communicating honestly even if you are not feeling well.
• Trying to read between the lines of what and how people say things and identifying their true feelings by watching their facial expressions and another body language is a part of studying people’s body language.
• Noticing patterns in your emotional past is a way to pick up things about your own feelings and how they are associated with your experience.
• Understanding the effect you have on other people is a part of understanding the effect you have on others.
• All the emotions you have are legitimate even the negative ones.
• Staying calm and in control in difficult situations is highly valued by the people around you.
• Judging someone or a situation without getting all the facts is not an EQ quality.
• Being more light-hearted at home and at school involves being positive and optimistic, which results in emotional well-being and greater opportunities.
• Humility is a wonderful trait and it does not mean you are shy or you lack self-confidence.
• Emotional Intelligence can be learned and developed.
• Being open minded and agreeable are traits of a high EQ.
• An individual with high EQ will choose to give others a chance to shine and not get praise for himself.
• Observing how you react to people involves looking honestly and interacting with others in a more open and accepting way.
• Achievement is a component of emotional intelligence where you have a guiding determination to attain internal standards of excellence.
• Empathy is a component of emotional intelligence where you are sympathetic to others and take an active concern in their problems.