EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE or EQ = an indicator for future success in life, more so than having high IQ.
Honest
Humble
Curious
Adaptable to change
Secure
Interested in others
Controls impulses
Delays gratification
Trustworthy
Open to improving oneself
Expresses emotions in a healthy way
Desires to learn
Communicates well
Dependable
Fosters unity
Motivated
Emotionally mature
Open-mindness
Holds onto own values
Want to be more like this? Although heredity impacts your level of EQ, nurturing it properly can strengthen your EQ regardless of whether or not it was modeled for you growing up. You can nurture EQ by doing more frontal lobe enhancing activities.
See: “Frontal Lobe - A Key Component for EQ”
However, one of the most influential ways you can improve your EQ is the
WAY YOU THINK!!
Paying attention to what you tell yourself and repetitive, distorted thinking patterns are crucial to improving your level of EQ. Cognitive Behavior therapy (CBT) does just that. Practicing CBT will enhance all 5 parts involved with EQ (swipe left to see all).
💫 So much more to come on CBT!
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“Every day the thoughts should be trained and kept to the point as the compass to the pole. Everyone should have his aims and purposes, and then make every thought and action of that character to accomplish that which he purposes. The thoughts must be controlled. There must be a fixedness of purpose to carry out that which you shall undertake....
No one but yourself can control your thoughts. In the struggle to reach the highest standard, success or failure will depend much upon the character, and the manner in which the thoughts are disciplined.
If the thoughts are right, then as a result the words will be right; the actions will be of that character to bring gladness and comfort and rest to souls....” — {TDG 66.3}
