Emotional Intelligence

I read about Emotional Intelligence recently. Thought of writing and sharing with people.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to acquire and apply knowledge from your emotions and the emotions of others in order to be more successful and lead a more fulfilling life.

When I browse I found various definitions on the net for this. Here are those follows.

From Six Seconds

“The capacities to create optimal results in your relationships with yourself and others.”

Lea Brovdani

Emotional intelligence is being able to recognize, name and appropriately deal with the emotions that we feel and experience. We may all feel anger, emotional intelligence is knowing what to do with the emotion of anger to achieve the best possible outcome.

Reuven BarOn
"an array of noncognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one's ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures".

Maurice Elias
Emotional intelligence is the set of abilities that we like to think of as being on the other side of the report card from the academic skills.

Inst. for Emotionally Intelligent Living

The ability to sense and use emotions to more effectively manage ourselves and influence positive outcomes in our relationships with others.

A management consulting firm in Australia
Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to regulate your impulses, face obstacles and empathize with others.

To explain further, I believe each baby is born with a certain, unique potential for emotional sensitivity, emotional memory, emotional processing and emotional learning ability. It is these four inborn components which I believe form the core of one's emotional intelligence.