This Is How To Increase Emotional Intelligence

It's the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions, to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships, and to manage your own and others’ emotions.

1. Self-Awareness: understanding of one’s emotions.
2. Self-Regulation: it frees us from being prisoners of our feelings.
3. Motivation: having an intrinsic desire to achieve things.
4. Empathy: the ability to understand emotions of other people.
5. Social Skill:  the ability to build rapport and manage relationships.

• Emotional empathy: “You feel awful? Then I feel awful too!”
• Cognitive empathy: “I understand that you are feeling awful. That must suck.”
• Compassion: “You feel awful? I feel for you. How can I help?”

Compassion is what we focus on for emotional intelligence.