Emotional Intelligence : An Overview
What do love, happiness, affection, elation, fear, hate, shame, disgust,surprise, sadness, and anger have in common? These are emotions that directly affect your day-to-day life. Generally, we believe that success in life depends on your level of intelligence or intelligence quotient (IQ) as reflected in your academic achievements, exams passed, marks obtained, and so on. In other words, your intellectual credentials are doing well in school, holding an engineering degree or advanced computer degree or a medical degree or qualifying in some top competitive exam to get a job, or obtaining high scores in an IQ test. All these are instances of intelligence of the academic variety (IQ).
But how smart are you outside the classroom, faced with life’s difficult moments? Here, you need a different kind of resourcefulness, a different kind of intelligence which you were never exposed to in classrooms. You need, what is called, emotional intelligence (EI) or emotional quotient (EQ), which is a different way of being smart. Why are some people instantly liked upon introduction, while others are distrusted? Why are some people sympathetic and caring, and have a rich and fulfilling emotional life? Why are some people comfortable with themselves and the social universe they inhabit, while many others are not? Why do some people, with less academic achievements, lead a fulfilling life, whereas many people with high IQ, make their own life, and those of people around them, miserable?
In workplace settings, Emotional intelligence is what gives a person the competitive edge where everyone is trained to be smart, the most valued and productive managers are those who have strong traits of emotional intelligence.
In school settings, emotional intelligence matters significantly, as it gives students, teachers, parents, peer group, counselors, deep insight into their emotional make up.
Today, it is taken for granted that you have adequate IQ, that is, the academic score, the intellectual ability, and the technical know-how to do your job. The focus, instead, is on your EI or EQ—personal qualities such as, empathy, adaptability, high self-esteem, and leadership. You need ‘marketable skills’ in addition to your academic achievements. The qualities which are considered crucial by employers these days are many: verbal communication,adaptability and creative responses to setbacks and obstacles, personal management, confidence, motivation to work towards goals, a sense of wanting to develop one’s career and taking pride in accomplishments, group and inter- personal effectiveness, co-operation and teamwork, skills in solving disagreements, willingness to make a contribution, leadership potential, along with competencies in reading, writing and mathematics. Of these desirable traits, only reading, writing and mathematics are academic skills. All the others are related to the non-academic arena—to emotional intelligence.
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“Anyone can be angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not easy.”
Aristotle
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