Find out how you can tell if you have a high Emotional Quotient (EQ)

The Emotional Quotient Although it is of the utmost importance, it is rarely addressed with the necessary importance. Let’s start with its definition, just as we have an Intellectual Quotient (IQ) that measures our performance in certain aptitudes, there is also this other coefficient that helps to identify the person’s ability to effectively feel, glimpse, and apply emotions in order to foster higher levels of collaboration as well as productivity.

Next, I share some guidelines so that you can identify how high your Emotional Quotient isand don’t worry, we all have the ability to improve in this area if we want to.

1. Self-control

This is one of the aspects that has been talked about the most in recent times, and although it sounds easy, having the ability to exercise them can be more difficult than you think. Self-control not only implies, as its name says, controlling oneself, but it involves power properly process emotions that a certain situation may be generating for us. Therefore, it is important to emphasize that controlling oneself is not the same as repressing oneself.

2. Emotional Regulation

A good metaphor to understand this point is to imagine a thermometer versus a thermostat. The thermometer measures the temperature and increases without stopping until it explodes (if that were the case), while a thermostat has the opposite process, when measuring that the temperature is exceeding the established limits, it decides to turn itself off automatically to avoid overheating. That’s the EQ level we want to get to, know each other enough not to explode and know the limit at which to start taking steps to reduce emotional intensity.

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3. Assertiveness

You’ve probably heard this word before, but do you know what its true meaning is? Being able to be assertive implies having the ability to be in the middle ground between submission (allowing other people to ignore your needs and overstep your limits) and aggression (ignore the needs of others and exceed their limits). This is an exercise in constant awareness of your behavior, both verbal and non-verbal, and could be considered the most complex point to reach within EQ, but it is not impossible.

be patient, this is only the beginning of the road…

Now that you already have an introduction about the Emotional Quotient, which will help you identify points where you need to improve if that is the case. And remember we are constantly growingbe patient with yourself.

I hope that these key points help you to start changing your life and that you can see positive results in your interpersonal relationships. If you want to know more about me, visit my website.

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