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Emotional Intelligence ……. ……. unleash the Best You Have to Offer …. knowing what feels good, what feels bad, and how to get from bad to good is all about emotional intelligence says Inderjit Singh a UN Consultant and a keen student of behavioral sciences…...
H
igh Intelligence alone is no guarantee
— BY INDERJIT SINGH Not anymore!
of success and happiness. Then why is it so, that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is
generally regarded as such a prime virtue? It was
Emotional Intelligence is the “difference” that “makes the difference”.
only until the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) emerged, that we could guess, what that
This write-up is by no means, a treatise or a
ever-elusive “why” was.
chronological development of the concept. My attempt is to rationalize the approach to the subject in the given ever-changing circumstances and one’s ability to make the best-balanced combination of the “intellective” (IQ) and “nonintellective” (EQ) elements to effectively meet our, and more importantly for the Leaders amongst us, to suitably discharge their social obligations and responsibilities towards the society and world at large. Suffice here to mention and pay tribute to the proponent of the concept of EI, the psychologist Edward Thorndike who almost a century back coined this phrase and the developers of the concept John Mayer and Peter Salovey in late 1990’s who elaborated it through their definition: • “The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions”
16 NOV-DEC 2020
