Eric Robertson

Emotional intelligence comes with five different components:

● Self-Awareness

● Self-Regulation

● Motivation

● Empathy

● Social Skills

Emotional intelligence is not about how we feel or what emotion we are experiencing at a given time but more about how we respond to our emotions and learning how to control them. Not all emotions need to be controlled but part of learning emotional intelligence is when we can focus on learning the right times and situations to control our emotions.

People who develop or improve self-motivation skills gain motivation internally rather than externally.

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sit with an emotion.

changed many lives for the better

look at an emotion, define it, figure out why it’s necessary, why it’s hard to control and even when to just sit with an emotion. The ability to control and cope with your emotions is a powerful skill to achieve and actually promotes success and happiness.
Emotional intelligence has changed many lives for the better because it allows you to develop five key skills needed to be aware of yourself and others. These characteristics are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. The characteristics of emotional intelligence will be defined and explained in much more detail in the first chapter. It’s hard to understand and learn about our emotions when we don’t understand emotional intelligence. As you read through this book make sure to keep in mind that every emotion and every skill you want to work on takes practice and patience to overcome or sit with. Without emotional intelligence, we wouldn’t be able to cope with or even understand our emotions. These emotions could spiral out of control and just take over - that’s a world in which we would all be a bunch of rageaholics or depressed zombies.
Think of a time when you became surprised by something which then made you really happy or extremely sad. The emotions that you experienced may have made you annoy others or do things that you regret. With that regret, you could have spiraled to make more poor decisions which may have then made you angry. Then you took that anger, tried to control it but because your EQ is unbalanced you entered a situation where you felt you had to defend yourself, then your fear took over. You broke down into a panic attack

Having social skills along with emotional intelligence means that you can successfully carry on a deep relationship or otherwise respectful one with people around you.

It is okay to completely lose control, and it is also okay to be in complete control.

Overthinking can accompany most people that have problems with negative thoughts and excessive worrying.