Emotional Intelligence
Hi there!
On this wall of the toolshed, you will find everything you need to start building your Emotional Intelligence.
Please feel free to take whatever tools you want.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to work with, instead of against, our emotions.
Improving our emotional intelligence is a life long pursuit - one I am still very much learning in my life!
The following tools, reflections and exercises include my understandings of EQ, as well as strategies I have used to become more adept in the language of emotions.
Happy doings!
How can we improve our Emotional Intelligence?
Excellent, let’s start with the steps of how you can build the muscles of your emotional intelligence. Below, you will see the Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence, which is my framework - my progression - of how you can develop your EQ.
Click on any of the images to get an understanding of the steps and some tools to work on the skill.
EI Workouts and Exercises
Brilliant, continuing on from the building blocks, I have created a variety of EI Workouts and Exercises which we can use to build the muscles of our emotional intelligence.
These are practical workouts! So, grab a pen and paper and feel free to join me for these EQ Exercises.
A collection of thoughts
Next, we have a range of ideas and learnings on emotional intelligence for you to explore according to your interests …
What are the emotions of procrastination? - exploring the real reason we avoid certain tasks …
Empathy and Sympathy - what are these two terms and how do they build off of each other?
Emotional Intelligence through the lens of Brandon Sanderson - an artificially intelligent robot discusses emotions with a human … what can we learn from their conversation?
Impulse Control - exploring the skill of leaping before looking and a tool to help manage our automatic reactions.
The Fascination and Frustration of Playing Squash with a Robot - just a wee blog to express my emotions.
What is Emotional Independence? - getting our head around the core of authenticity.
Academic References - a list of journal articles about EI for all you scholars and students.
Tools
Go ahead and grab a tool off the wall, just remember to put it back when you are done :)
Obscure Emotions
Lastly, learn a new emotion or two with these quirky emotions! I have either collected these words from different languages, found them on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or invented them myself :)
