Readers,
Have you ever stopped to consider how much control you have over your emotions?
When you are feeling sad, you are the one who eventually decides when to stop feeling sad.
Likewise when you are happy, you decide how much you are going to let bad news affect you and for how long.
The ability to keep your emotions in check and under your control is known as emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (eq).
Most people have heard of an intelligence quotient (iq) and yet so few have been told about emotional intelligence.
The beautiful thing about emotional intelligence is that unlike iq, it can be learnt through practise and concerted effort.
Emotional quotient plays a far greater role in our success both in terms of our income and happiness than our intelligence quotient and yet is so sadly neglected by so many.
Does emotional intelligence mean to suppress ones emotions?
Not at all. A true master of their emotions is able to express all the emotions.
The difference then is the ability to express the right emotion to the right person for the right amount of time and for the right reason.
Any fool can get angry with anybody at any given time. It takes emotional wisdom to express anger at the right time and to the right degree.
I would like to leave you all with a quote by Aristotle :
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
No comments:
Post a Comment