Emotional Intelligence : Why It Can Matter More Than Iq By Daniel Goleman

What is emotional intelligence? EI is the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically; thus, compared to Daniel Goleman's definition to emotional intelligence are very similar just in more detail.

Emotional intelligence plays a very critical role in the overall quality of our personal and professional lives. In fact, many people feel that emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important than one’s intelligence quotient (IQ) when it comes to attaining success in their lives and careers.

Emotional Intelligence helps us know our emotions and also helps us in controlling our own emotions as well as the emotions of people around us.

The ability to express and control our own emotions is important, but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Psychologists refer to this ability as emotional intelligence. According to the Cambridge Dictionary online, Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate

Emotional intelligence refers to capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationship. (Goleman, 1995)

Many in this generation have always relied on the thought that our capacity to succeed in life is highly dependent on our level of IQ. While the whole while from elementary school coming up from high school to higher education, many of us have based success on the performance of the test. That implies that we base success upon the grades we acquire in every paper. Unfortunately, there has been a lot that we have missed concerning emotional intelligence that has been proved to be the one overwhelming indicator of how we succeed in life. Goleman (2009) asserts that emotional intelligence is the largest single predictor of success in workplaces.

Emotional intelligence or as others call it, emotional quotient, is a relatively new and controversial topic in the world of psychology. Emotional intelligence abbreviated EI or EQ, was first theorized in 1990 by Peter Salovey a social psychologist hailing from Standford University and John Mayer a personality psychologist from Case Western University. These two researchers began by looking at intelligence quotients (IQ) and creating a hypothesis as to why some people, despite lower scores on intelligence tests held high positions in career settings, had a high rapport with many individuals from all walks of life and overall were seen to be more empathetic and understanding in nature. Salovey and Mayer proposed that IQ scores do not measure factors that may contribute to a successful, happy life, such as how a person interprets their own emotions such as anger or sadness and how one deals with these emotions. Salovey and Mayer believed if such skills existed they could be broken off into subsets and tested on their own. In turn, Salovey and Mayer created the revolution known as emotional intelligence.

According to Salovey and Mayer, Emotional Intelligence involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. Emotional Intelligence is widely demonstrated in my group. One factor is the greater number of women as compared to men. Women tend to be more emotional than men in many aspects. The ability to manage feelings and handle stress is one aspect of Emotional Intelligence that has been found to be significant for success.

In 1997, however, John D. Mayer and P. Salovey admitted that the initial definition of EI was insufficient, therefore they revised it as follows: “EI involves the ability to perceive accurately, appraise and express emotion; the ability to access and/or generate feelings when they facilitate thought; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; and the ability to regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth” (Mayer & Salovey, 1997, p.10).

We are all familiar with general intelligence (IQ). How many of us know anything about Emotional intelligence (EQ)? Emotional intelligence is the capacity to identify, apply, empathize and manage emotions in positive ways to communicate effectively, understand others, fight challenges, relieve stress and resolve conflict in

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to to be aware of your emotions, manipulate them from negative to positive and analyze them in yourself and other people, so you know when you are stressed, being negative and how to recognize this in other people.

     In the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the central thesis that he tries to point out is that emotional intelligence may be more important than I.Q. in determining a person’s well being and success in life. At first I didn’t know what Goleman was talking about when he said emotional intelligence, but after reading the book I have to say that I agree completely with Goleman. One reason for my acceptance of Goleman's theory is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. To me, emotions can be just as intelligent as your I.Q. In this essay I hope to provide sufficient evidence to show why I agree with Goleman’s thesis on emotional intelligence.

To begin, the basics of emotional intelligence are crucial to understanding the foundation from which humans refer to on a daily basis for interacting in society. Emotional intelligence suggests that humans hold the capability to identify, interpret, understand, manage, and response to emotions in ways to enforce positive relationships, establish good communication, empathize, and address conflict within social networks. Humans begin learning this upon entering life, as emotional intelligence determines the ways that humans behave and intermingle with the environment. The degree of intelligence varies among people: those with a high emotional intelligence are able to recognize their own emotions and other emotions in addition to a sort of magnetic draw that pulls others toward them. This is because people with high emotional intelligence know how to better relate to, understand, and help others. Consider a group

Over the past years, the notion of a unitary general intelligence has been controverted by some theorists and researchers. For example, Howard Gardner (1983, 1999) has indicated that there are multiple intelligences exist in human beings. The term ‘emotional intelligence’ has been first introduced into our vocabulary by Mayer and Salovey (1990) as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. Daniel Goleman (1995) in his book Emotional Intelligence; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ criticizes the education system for that they dismiss everything from social to emotional knowledge and solely focus on teaching informational material to children at schools.

Although the importance of EI is apparent, there has to be a belief in an organization that EI can be developed, learned, and taught in order for organizations to invest in EIT. Although there are many conflicting views on whether emotional intelligence can be learned or not, Dulewicz and Higgs, Groves et al. and McEnrue et al. (as cited in Meisler, 2014, p. 288) are among some of the researchers who have found some evidence that suggests that emotional intelligence can be developed. In addition to these researchers is an American psychologist named Daniel Goleman whose work in the field of emotional intelligence has led to the creation of Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). As stated in Maurice Elias’ and Dominic C. Moceri’s 2012 article, the