What does emotional intelligence mean to you? What are the benefits of possessing emotional intelligence? ?
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Question by looop: What does emotional intelligence mean to you? What are the benefits of possessing emotional intelligence? ?
What does emotional intelligence mean to you? (use the five components) What are the benefits of possessing emotional inteligence?
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Answer by Einstein's Dog
It is my philosophy that is would serve everyone if I told you that this is not a philosophical question. Emotions are a Social Science. Look under Social Science for Psychology.
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Wow, I don’t think I can accurately systematize it like that.
I used to drive a van full of children (8 or 9 kids) from day care back to the homeless shelter every day. Every day some two kids would get into an argument and for 30 minutes, sitting in traffic and playing referee was pretty rough. One day there were only 3 kids, a brother and sister who got along like gold and another boy. When the little boy started whispering and suddenly the most get-along pair I ever met were at each other’s throats, I started to figure out where the trouble was coming from. I had a long talk with the culprit (who was never involved in any of these fights in any way, to all appearances) and we stopped having conflicts on the van ride.
THAT is an 8 year old child with astounding emotional intelligence!
I for one doubt that there exists anything which could accurately be called ‘emotional intelligence’. There is nothing inherently intelligent in our ability to feel emotion. Our intelligence is in our ability to effectively record information to memory and apply logic to that information quickly and consistently. Saying that there is an element of intelligence in emotion makes no more sense than saying that a car’s tires have their own headlights. The only real difference is that because it’s so abstract, it takes some people longer to realize that it doesn’t make any sense.