Emotional Intelligence

Emotional IntelligenceMan's feelings color his experiences and influence his cognitive processes in important ways.  "Feeling is the simple, pleasurable or painful aspect of mental processes of bodily action"A feeling is an advantage in any area of life because what one feels is what he acts. As Aristotle said, " Anyone can become angry with the right person with the purpose in the right way is not easy"  ).Feeling of expressing and understanding, controlling one's temper, being well liked, are feelings that are the best enemies of man.  Without these, he will suffer a lack of emotional intelligence.  Looking at intelligence as a variety of different abilities opens up the way people evaluate others and themselves.  Each person possesses some degree of each of these abilities, but most people have more of some that of others.  Lack of emotional intelligence affects man's quality of life.People who have higher emotional intelligence improve the quality of their living and the feelings they have.  As people improve, so do their emotional intelligence.  Their success in life determines their emotional intelligence.  Commonly people who have high level of emotional intelligence become successful in life.In fact, according to Goleman's research, a person's Emotional Intelligence (EQ) might be a greater predictor of success than his Intellectual Intelligence (IQ)  (Goleman, 1995).Psychologists agree that IQ contributes only about 20% of the factor that determines success, a full eighty percent (80%) come from the other factors called emotional intelligence  (Goleman, 1995).The root of this low emotional intelligence for not succeeding even with a high intelligence quotient is the quality of parenting values, beliefs and feelings which are acquired in the homes and the first models are the parents.