A Higher EQ Can Turn Your Life Around Heres How

Introvert Whisperer / A Higher EQ Can Turn Your Life Around Here’s How Why Having a Higher EQ Ensures a More Successful Life “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”   George Bernard Shaw (playwright and political activist) The better you know yourself, the more perceptive you will be to the world outside. Emotional intelligence may seem like a fancy time psychologists throw around, but it is more influential in your life than you thought. For example, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Beckham, and Princess Diana have all achieved the heights of success, both personally and professionally. While you could have attributed their successes to various other traits such as wit, charm, personality aspects, intelligence, grit or hard work, it was actually emotional intelligence that blew the winds in their favor. Read on to know more about how higher emotional intelligence translates directly to not only monetary but also personal success. IQ and EQ: Ending The War Once and For All It all begins with the tests. IQ and EQ are measured differently, and with varying levels of significance as well. The number that you get after some random standardized test usually sums up your IQ or intelligence quotient. Let us leave the validity and credibility issue of the IQ tests for some other day. For now, let us focus on the primary differences that set the intelligence and emotional quotients apart. Having a good IQ score thus means that you have the following. Knowledge of the world around you Visual and spatial processing abilities Short-term memory and working memory Smooth flow of reasoning Ability to perform quantitative reasoning EQ, on the other hand, denotes your abilities to perceive, evaluate, control, and express emotions. Thanks to researchers like Peter Salovey and John Mayer, along with authors like Daniel Goleman, helped us get to the bottom of the matter of EQ or emotional quotient. From business management to education, EQ is making the rounds as the newest kid on the block. Having a high EQ means you have the following. Ability to identify emotions Knowing how others are feeling Being able to control their own emotions Using emotions to communicate socially Being able to relate to others It has been quite a journey for the term emotional intelligence. When it first came into the picture in the 1990s, it was still considered an obscure term. Today, however, along with being recognized as a well-constructed concept, it also features in academic journals the world over. Schools in the USA now have social and emotional learning (SEL) as a required part of their curriculum. These lessons are sometimes known to conduct group experiments with tools that help gauge their classmates reactions to particular objects, occurrences or pictures.