Emotional Intelligence means using emotions and thinking together—it’s about balance. In layman’s words, it means being smarter with feelings. Emotional Quotient (EQ) means knowing and managing your own emotions, recognizing and managing other people’s emotions, and motivating yourself, too. It helps to manage relationships so that a person can achieve personal and professional goals using other people.

EQ mainly represents personal and social competence.

Personal Competence: Knowing your emotions means Self-awareness about how you feel. It helps to assess your emotional state. It has three aspects, which include

  • Self-assessment means awareness of your positives and negatives, strengths and weaknesses.
  • Self Confidence- to be positive and secure and assured whatever situation you are.
  • Self-Management- to understand and control your emotions so that they don’t control you, i.e., self-control, which means maintaining positivism in the face of the problem. The people who excel in it can bounce back far more quickly from life’s setbacks and disappointments.

Social Competence refers to how well you manage your relationships with others, including their emotions. It has two concepts.

  • Social Awareness Means understanding the emotions of those people around you, empathizing with others, and being aware of what is affecting them.
  • Social Management involves using awareness of one’s own emotions and others’ emotions to build healthy relationships. It’s a way to communicate, persuade, and lead others while being direct and low-key without alienating others. People who excel in these skills do well at anything that relies on interacting smoothly with others.

The Four Fundamental Aspects of Emotional Intelligence are:-

  • Recognizing emotions
  • Understanding emotions
  • Regulating emotions
  • Using emotions

Emotional Quotient (EQ) is more important than Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It is more important for personal and professional success. The research found that IQ had little relation to success at work and in the rest of their lives. Once established in some particular work or job/ life, success is more likely to depend on your ability to persist in the face of difficulty and get along well with others. It can be remedied to a great extent.  It represents a habit and response that can be improved with the right effort.

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