The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence is a modern terminology that defines a person's ability to manage his emotions and control and select the best ones, which can affect his act during a situation. One Of the most famous people who have de fined emotional intelligence is Daniel Coleman, who identified it as “a person's ability to know his emotions full knowledge, and also his ability to know the emotions of others, so that this person can handle himself first and interact with others through choosing the right emotion to express himself in any situation that exists or even when he is in this situation not by his well”. Some believe that emotional intelligence is the basis of success in life, so they separated the normal intelligence (measured by IQ) what…show more content…
For sure, the strong emotions play a big role while thinking about the something and make it will make it difficult to come up with a solution for something or even any normal idea. That’s why many of the great thinkers in the past decided that the absence of emotions while thinking is a must so they can accomplish their mission or reach their target. With what we have from the past and now many trials have shown us that the emotionless thinking does not necessarily lead to satisfactory answer, if not impossible. The problem does not lie in the passion itself but in the way that an emotion is expressed through any situation. It is not required to disqualify emotions aside as much as trying to find or create a balance between the rational thought and emotions. Harmony between your emotions and your principles and values, which make you, feel good and reassuring .That’s why people who are emotionally intelligent have a lot of…show more content…
For example, if we reflect on the role that emotions can play in the workplace to show us the importance involved in understanding our emotions and how to deal with it in a timely manner. Let's take the feelings of fear and anxiety as an example. If someone works in a factory and the factory management decided to increase production days, so he needs to work faster in the same period of time with the same quality of the product. If the required speed can be reasonably handled then a little bit of speed more than usual he can motivate himself to be more alert and careful. If the increased speed more and more to the point that makes a single worker can’t do this job and it requires a group to make this work possible and to keep up with this speed, then, the employee starts to feel anxiety and fear. Then he starts to worry about making mistakes or injure himself maybe if he works with blades a huge machines there is a huge possibility that he will be injured and that develops a feeling of fear. But he can control that anxiety and puts it aside or ignore it and pay attention to work and everything goes just fine. If he insisted on anxiety and fear then some mistakes will be made or he may hurt himself as a result of confusion and lose function. In a study by Seligman he studied 500 students from the first year students at

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