What is the level of your EI
17 Nov 2018
Dear LPG,
I read with interest the item that you posted on 22nd October (►►►) and then found something else using Google that I thought readers may be interested in.
I found some information on the subject of Emotional Intelligence. It has always been there apparently, but in 1999 a book which was the culmination of research, embarked on by a specialist journalist named Daniel Goleman, gave it its own niche in our societies’ way of thinking.
It is apparently the art (I mean science) of understanding your own emotions and those of the people around you better. I have to admit to finding it really hard to assess what the people around me are feeling sometimes and managing my own emotions is really hard to do because my head and my heart are often at odds with each other making working out what I am feeling a conundrum that I can’t fathom a lot of the time. But there are apparently principles that one can learn to be more successful.
Some people are much better at achieving success here than others and, in an ideal world I suppose, if we all made a study of this phenomenon, we would all be kinder to each other. It is never too late to learn, so I just wanted to introduce those readers for whom staying out of emotional harm is a little more of a challenge to another way of looking at this and just in case you are not sure where you stand on the EI scale I found a test that you can try. I plan to try it once I have sent this off to LPG so that I don’t feel compelled to report how I did.
SF. Crofton Park.
SF has asked us to pass on the facts found while preparing this post and also offers on the many free online tests that are available…
