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The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success, Third Edition
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The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success, Third Edition

by Steven J. Stein, Howard E. Book
June 2011
Beginner
368 pages
9h 25m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 9

Interpersonal Relationships

“Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.”

—TENZIN GYATSO, 14TH DALAI LAMA

DEFINITION:

By interpersonal relationships, we mean the ability to establish and maintain mutually satisfying relationships that are characterized by the ability to both “give” and “take” in relationships, and where trust and compassion are openly expressed in words or by behavior. Mutual satisfaction ...

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