![]() ![]() So plenty of book-smart people enter the workplace, but far fewer can read a room or effectively negotiate in the heat of a debate or handle other pressure-filled challenges. ![]() This means that the vast majority don’t know how to harness their emotions for personal and professional betterment, and instead get dragged around by their emotions. A comprehensive battery of tests (500,000 people) revealed that only thirty-six percent of participants could accurately identify their emotions as they experience them. A growing body of research shows that EQ explains success far better. ![]() Studies are revealing that IQ is an unreliable predictor of success in professional and private life. Ideally, there is a steady flow of communication between the brain’s centers of reason and emotion. This isn’t an inferior arrangement, just something we need to be aware of. So we feel things before our reason gets a grasp of the situation. These signals pass through the brain’s emotional center, called the limbic system, before making their way back to the brain’s reasoning center. Whatever we experience enters the brain through the spinal cord in the form of electrical signals. This is a common problem, because the biological deck is stacked in favor of emotion. Emotions will dominate if we’re not careful. This makes emotional intelligence an imperative skill, because we need it every day. Effectively managing our emotions is a normal part of life. ![]()
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