Emotional Intelligence To Achieve Success

Although the psychologist Daniel Goldman is not the first one who used the term “emotional intelligence”, he is the one who effectively contributed to its popularity. Emotional intelligence is to understand and manage your personal emotions as well as others’ emotions. So, all who have a great deal of emotional intelligence know their feelings well, and what they mean, and how these emotions can influence others.
In the present time, intelligence is not the only indicator for success in life, but it plays a big role too. This is the reason why some successful people dedicate their skills within a harmonious team, and gain sympathy through participating in serving the society and improve their leadership skills. So EQ & IQ are two different terms, and the former can be improved and developed while it is unlike IQ. Lots of researches demonstrated that the emotional intelligence is the essential key for success.

The Importance of the Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to recognize emotions so the one can reach them and re-generate them in order to complete the thinking process, and it is also the ability to understand and organize emotions to encourage the mental and emotional development (Mayer-Salovey, Four Branch Model of Emotional Intelligence).
Emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence and developing its skills includes a number of benefits, especially it influences the decision-making power, quality of relationships and health.

Its Impact On Decision-making:
Being able to recognize emotions and know their meaning and source would let you adopt a more logical and organized approach when taking any important decision.

Its impact on relationships:
When individuals understand the reasons behind forming their current personalities and the reasons behind their reactions on various situations, they tend to gain more appreciation for themselves and others, which could lead to strong and distinct relationships in work and harmoniums personal relationships among them.

Its Impact On Health:
A psychological disorder often appears on the individual as a physical disease. Concealing the negative emotions permanently would lead to increased exposure of body to stress, and it may affect the body for a temporary period of time or destroy it. Hence, emotional intelligence’s role is to scale up the quality of health.