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Emotional intelligence/quotient EI/EQ is a capacity every individual need to possess for handling different situations in their life. You may be a student, teacher, parent or a working professional, it is important for you to develop EI to identify & manage your emotions and others emotions. This will help you to manage stress levels, improve social relationships & performance and bring happiness to you. It is important in personal and professional perceptions and interactions.

If you do not develop emotional intelligence, it will affect your physical & mental health, performance and social relationships.

What EI exactly means?

Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to understand and manage one’s own emotions & others emotions in a productive and healthy way. 

Main skills of EI/EQ:-

EI predicts your personal and social competence in terms of what you see and what you do.

*Self-awareness

*Self-management

*Social awareness

*Relationship management

Ways to develop EI:-

If you want to develop emotional intelligence, you need incorporate these six pillars in your life such as self-awareness, empathy, self-regulation, motivation, social skills and happiness.

You need to analyze your emotions and practice how to manage your emotions & behave in a better way. While you express your thoughts or feelings be careful first connect both and respond accordingly. Observe the emotions of other people and how they respond to a particular situation then practice the way to handle emotions. Observe, learn and practice more about emotions as this can’t be developed in a single day.

Behavior of an emotional intelligent person:-

An emotional intelligent person will listen, accept, forgive, take personal responsibility, seek other points of view, understand, accept, and able to explain your emotional reactions, stay calm under pressure, use emotions appropriately to both inspire and make others feel comfortable, admit and learn from mistake, take feedback with ease and match words with body language.

Adopt & develop these behaviors and characters to become an emotional intelligent person.