Introduction

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

What is emotional intelligence? It's being intelligent with your emotions.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage emotions.

It's using your emotions to inform your thinking and using your thinking to understand and manage emotions.

Although regular intelligence – the ability to reason, rationalize, analyze etc. – is important in life, emotional intelligence is the key to thinking clearly and creatively, to being able to manage stress and challenges confidently and relate well to others.

In this book you will learn how to understand and manage your emotions – your own and other people's – in a way that is helpful and can make a real, positive difference to your life.

Understanding ...

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