6 Steps to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. It is an important skill to have in order to be successful in life and relationships. In her TEDxTUM talk, Ramona Hacker explains how to improve your emotional intelligence in six steps.
1. Identify Your Emotions
The first step to improving your emotional intelligence is to identify your emotions. This means being aware of how you are feeling in any given moment. It is important to take the time to recognize and name your emotions. This will help you to better understand and manage them.
2. Understand Your Emotions
Once you have identified your emotions, it is important to understand why you are feeling them. This means taking the time to reflect on the situation and think about what might be causing your emotions. This will help you to better manage them in the future.
3. Express Your Emotions
Once you have identified and understood your emotions, it is important to express them in a healthy way. This means finding a way to communicate your feelings to others in a respectful and constructive manner. This will help to build trust and understanding in your relationships.
4. Listen to Others
In order to improve your emotional intelligence, it is important to listen to others. This means taking the time to really hear what someone is saying and understanding their perspective. This will help you to better empathize with them and build stronger relationships.
5. Manage Your Emotions
Once you have identified, understood, and expressed your emotions, it is important to manage them. This means taking the time to think about how you can best respond to the situation. This will help you to stay in control of your emotions and make better decisions.
6. Practice Self-Care
The final step to improving your emotional intelligence is to practice self-care. This means taking the time to do things that make you feel good and help you to relax. This will help you to better manage your emotions and stay in control of your life.
FAQs
What is emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
How can I improve my emotional intelligence?
You can improve your emotional intelligence by taking the time to identify, understand, and express your emotions in a healthy way. It is also important to listen to others and practice self-care.
What is the importance of emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is an important skill to have in order to be successful in life and relationships. It can help you to better empathize with others and make better decisions.
This girl sucks
I'm on the path guys… this is something I need
Some good points but these tips miss out one of the most important influence on our emotions: unconscious beliefs. They are crucial to how we emotionally react to our environment as adults. Unconscious limiting beliefs are like a switch – if it is on your emotional reaction is going to be aligned to it. For example if you believe that everything you do needs to be perfect you are going to feel permanently frustrated. And your conscious cannot go agains this. Redecing frustration cannot be achieved by switching off the belief. Bear in mind that 95% of our beliefs are unconcious. So I am sceptical about takes like the one in this video due to their sole focus on the conscious.
I really need to work on this skill
Amazing video thanks
nope, nope, and nope. I've met people accrues the spectrum. and we are not that eased to deal with, good luck.
6:51 know who you are
Emotional Responsibility rather than intelligence, I dont expect people to be intelligent, but responsible would be nice…
Machines beat human with IQ, human beat Machines with EQ
another thing that i am noticing she mentioned how her family lacked teaching her emotional intelligence, and she is saying that schools need to incorporate this learning skill, this can be helpful, but what about that parents at home, why place so much responsibility on the school, and why not try and figure out how come they are not learning this at home.
This speech is worth spreading and sharing as much as possible. Very well presented and supported, and gives the action to be taken and the method to be followed. Bravo Ramona, the most beautiful and useful speech ever heard !
There's no such a thing as "emotional intelligence". That's one more of today's social dogmas.
I have a question: how do you guys handle your emotions? ❤️
This was soooo good! Thank you 🙏🏿❤
Thank you so much for sharing this. This information is life saving
Thank you so much for sharing this. This information is life saving
I’m 38 years old now I’m still working this EI …
Or can?
I I can't wait. Just knowing that could make me feel better
If I'm being candid I will say I have lacked emotional energy in my mind so. Being haveing had that I've lost full profile of self.
Dear it's so many things
Thank you mam… I was in such a dire need of this.
I don't get it, i get IQ but emotional intelligence sounds like somebody will come up with to feel superior or something.
Wow literally amazing thank you!
Very difficult to understand..
Good one…
Nice video 3 years later
THIS Is How You Balance Your Emotions
We can balance our emotions with the help of the environment.
What I mean by “environment” is our society and its influences, that we can surround ourselves with such influences that will guide us on how to direct the emotions that awaken in us.
For instance, we know the example of peer pressure, when our friends tell us to do or not to do something, and their influence makes us follow their recommendations. Using this force of our surrounding environment, we can choose our environment—the kinds of people, media and values we surround ourselves with—and accordingly change our attitude toward certain emotions.
We can then build our intellect with our social influences. Our desires constantly grow, and we correspondingly need to build a greater and greater intellect with which we can deal with our growing desires.
Adjusting our environmental influences in order to build the intellect so that we can best deal with our growing desires is the essence of education. It is what we need to teach the younger generation, that we can balance our emotions with our intellects, and by doing so, come to see our perfect state in life.
We should thus try to find an environment that would be able to supplement our constantly-surfacing emotions in a certain direction. Our environment should act as a damper, helping us mediate our inner excitements and eruptions, bringing them to a state where we would be able to realize them—but to realize them in ways that benefit both ourselves and others.
In other words, we need to examine ourselves in relation to our environment, whether the environment accepts what we want to do. If we find that our desires match those of the environment, then we can continue realizing our desires. We can then determine that we can carry out what we want to do, that it will benefit both us and those around us, and that everything will turn out just fine if we go ahead and realize our desires.
This is how we can balance our emotions—by learning how to balance between our intellect and our emotions via our surrounding environment.
Very nice and it's an important topic to be taught in schools, colleges and practice it in corporates…..if emotionally strong then physical n financial success is just a simple goal
This was not helpful in my opinion 😓
Her voice is therapeutic
This is extremely vague I'm shocked that this is a TED talk
Is that you, Chelsea Clinton?
I had an argument yesterday with my friend. I am constantly feeling bad 😔. I don't know how to stop feeling bad .
It was awesome
very important message but presentation was boring and difficult to follow
great presentation-though, wish I watched this years ago. It is an art and awareness.
She is stalling for so long, damn.
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