Emotion Intelligence
Autor: Vince Mancini • February 8, 2016 • Term Paper • 732 Words (3 Pages) • 921 Views
Vince Mancini
October 29, 2015
Professor Lombardi
Emotion Intelligence
In class we’ve learned about the different kinds of intelligences that an individual can be evaluated by. Before this class, I thought that your IQ was the only way to describe how intelligent you are. But that only gauges one area of your intelligence. One of the most important measures of intelligence is your emotional intelligence. Your ability to understand others through what motivates them and figuring out how to work cooperatively with them determines an individual’s Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Therefore, every individual should strive to develop the advanced emotion intelligence to empathize, read, better understand, and negotiate with other people.
During a test I took to evaluate and test my emotional intelligence, I was able to evaluate four major areas of emotional intelligence; my self-awareness, self-management, and social-awareness and relationship management. Here are my results:
Self-Awareness | Self-Management | Social-Awareness | Relationship Management |
7 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
The core of Emotional Intelligence is self-awareness. This includes three major parts. The first is emotional self-awareness, which is your ability to recognize your own emotions and how they appear to others. The second is self-assessment, which is how well you are able to gauge your own personal strengths or weaknesses. The last one is self-confidence which is the certainty about one’s capabilities and talents. I feel like my score of 7/10 in this category was accurate. I am very good at realizing my own strengths and weaknesses, and have high self-confidence, but I understand that I struggle in recognizing on how my emotions reflect on others. I tend to bury my emotions, and this often causes confusion with others, because they cannot tell how I really feel.
Self-management, which I feel is the most important out of the four categories consists of several components. The first is self-control, which is being able to manage your negative emotions and impulses. The second is adaptability. Adaptability is the ability to adapt to changing situations and overcome and unexpected obstacles. The last component is initiative, which is your readiness to seize opportunities and act. This was my strongest score out of the four categories as I scored an 8/10. I agree that self-management is one of my strengths because I have had practice with this from my life experiences. Being a student-athlete, I have to be able to control my emotions while playing my sport, because if I get too emotional it will mess up my game. I also constantly have a lot of daily task with practice and school, so I am accustomed to living a fast-paced lifestyle where I am always and the go and have to be ready for change.
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