Glenn Cummings - Emotional Intelligence: The Most Complete Blueprint to Develop and Boost Your EQ. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

I ntelligence is a subject that has received a great deal of attention in recent decades as our views about the skills that are necessary for human beings to survive change. Humans are social animals, which means that how well we are able to understand one another and interact with each other is an essential component of our success or failure as people. Indeed, our ability as individuals to understand other people emotionally has come to be regarded as a critical part of our intellectual capacity. This is where emotional intelligence comes into play.

Interest in emotional intelligence has increased recently as many men and women realize that this is an aspect of intelligence that has traditionally been ignored. Intelligence was long thought of as a quality that could be measured by tests that sought to determine proficiency in math, science, or general knowledge. Intelligence was something that was important to measure because it was believed to be something that could help separate people into groups based on this capacity, not to mention that it was seen as an important predictor of success.

We still measure intelligence capability with tests (or try to), but now that the world of emotional intelligence has unfolded, our very understanding of this capacity for knowledge has changed. Emotional intelligence, and an understanding of it, allows human beings to be conscious of how critical our interactions with each other are as individuals and as a species. Demonstrating this type of intelligence can make the difference in maintaining positive relationships, success in a career, and in living a life that is happy and full.

An important part of emotional intelligence is being in touch with your emotions, but this intelligence capacity is so much more than that. Indeed, an essential aspect of the very idea of emotional intelligence is the fact that it is about interactions. Traditional models of intelligence paid no attention to interaction as a part of intellectual capacity. This oversight has led to a great deal of interest about emotional intelligence as researchers in the social sciences, and other fields attempt to gain a better understanding of just what role emotional intelligence, and the related empathy, play in human life.

It is amazing to think that science has ignored the importance of human connection to a happy, successful life for so long, but the studies of emotional intelligence that have taken place in the last several decades have provided a wealth of knowledge that you can use to live a fuller, more satisfying life. Emotional intelligence has been studied so fully that tests that attempt to measure this type of capacity have been developed, and the concept of emotional quotient, or EQ, has emerged as the emotional equivalent of IQ, or intelligence quotient.

But what is emotional intelligence? It may be natural to suppose that this emotional capacity hinges on an understanding of ones own emotional state; however, this type of definition does not recognize the complexities that underlie human feelings and interactions. Recognizing ones own emotions may be the first step in developing emotional intellectual skills, but as you will see as you read further, being able to perceive and even experience the subjective emotions of others allows the basic emotional self-awareness to be transformed into a real, human ability, one that is very old and very powerful. This ability to connect with others on an emotional level may be one of the keys to the endurance of the human race over the centuries and also our ability to engage in a complex social life.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize our own feelings as well as the feelings of others, to distinguish between different feelings, and to utilize our feelings in our interactions with others. Although much of the study of emotional intelligence has sought to establish this concept with equality to traditional ideas of intelligence, the recognition of feelings and empathy as important parts of intelligence represents a shift in the way that science has approached the idea of intellectual capacity. This recognition may in part be due to the recognition by science that traditional paradigms of intelligence actually harmed the study of intelligence by neglecting the role that interactions play in successful life as a human being.

In Emotional Intelligence: The Most Complete Blueprint To Developing And Boosting Your Eq you will learn what science has discovered about this important intellectual capacity so that you can change your life in dramatic ways. One of the more important aspects of emotional intelligence perhaps is that it is a skill that can be learned and honed to efface great changes. Because emotions and an understanding of them are so critical to interactions with other people, gaining this type of knowledge and training can lead to dramatically improved outcomes, perhaps more so than training other types of intelligence.

The first step to gaining the skills that you need to create powerful change in your life is to learn what intelligence is, how it is different from other types of intelligence, and how it can be categorized as a means of better understanding. In the first chapter, you will gain a working definition of emotional intelligence that takes stock of how knowledge of this idea has grown while also recognizing that we still have much to learn. Emotional quotient (EQ) will be explained as will how this quality is measured.

In the second chapter, you will take a journey through the development of emotional intelligence, learning the history of the study of this concept. Originally mentioned in an article in the 1960s, emotional intelligence, and its study has flowered through the years as many of the greatest minds in social science attempt to quantify this quality that is now receiving its proper due as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. Of course, as the world of feeling renders emotional intelligence different stuff from traditional forms of intelligence, there will always be a measure of this quality that eludes quantification, but the tests that have been developed to measure it will be described.