Emotional Intelligence Everyday

November 30, 2014

Emotional Intelligence Everyday According to Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, emotional intelligence is defined as, “the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (1990). This means, emotional intelligence gives you the ability to evaluate emotions, control emotions, and perceive emotions. Although others believe emotional intelligence is an inborn characteristic, some researchers believe it can be strengthened and learned. Each individual is different when choosing the way to live their life. This is where the dimensions of emotional intelligence comes in. For someone who lives a very happy and satisfied life, they might not realize how bad another individual may have it. So even though the happy individual lives day by day in a great mood, another person may be living each day the complete opposite. Therefore, someone who is happy everyday would be considered positive, and the other person who lives in sorrow and doubt would be negative. So between these two types of individuals, one can summarize in which place they fall. Some examples of emotional intelligence would be first, to understand your emotions. Understanding your emotions would definitely help you control and manage your emotions. Next, would be to think about the specific emotion before acting upon it. An example of doing so would be if an individual was angry, then that anger would motivate them into something they might end up regretting. Another emotional intelligence example would be to put yourself in another person’s shoes. For instance, if a manager were to see one of their employees not working hard, then it would be wrong for the manager to automatically jump