What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It is generally said to include three skills:
1. Emotional awareness, including the ability to identify your o...
Increase Your Emotional Intelligence, Avoid a Lawsuit: A Guide for Lawyers
Q: What do you call a smiling, courteous person at a bar association convention?
A: The caterer.
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Not news: People don't like lawyers.
News: There's a scientific reason.
Tests reveal that lawyers are less emotionally intelligent than the general population and other professions. They're particularly bad at being aware of their own and others' emotions.
And lawyers with especially low emotional intelligence are, like doctors, at greater risk for malpractice suits, according to the ABA.
Lawyers tend to have higher IQs than the average person. And many lawyers think that's more than enough. After all, law is professional, buttoned up. It's tough, efficient, and emotion-free.
Yeah, no.
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When it comes to predicting success, it appears IQ is overrated compared to EQ.
This is great news because IQ is generally understood to be fairly static. But emotional intelligence absolutely can be learned, according to the guy who wrote the book on emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman's review of the literature suggests EQ is less a set of natural aptitudes and more a set of learned skills. A bigger focus on EQ than IQ makes sense because, at least according to Goleman, it's more malleable.
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What is Emotional Intelligence?
A paper from MIT on emotional intelligence defines it as the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others.
It consists mainly of emotional awareness and emotional control. Emotionally intelligent people can:
Identify their emotions Differentiate them from those of others Label them accurately Regulate them Apply them to tasks like thinking and problems solving Why should I develop emotional intelligence?
