Emotional Intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

By Eric Jensen

Emotional intelligence, Learning, Thinking

There is no thinking without feeling and no feeling without thinking.

By Karen McCovyn, Anabel Jensen, Joshua Freedman, and Marsha Rideout

Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Feeling, Thinking

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: Identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

By John Mayer and Peter Salovey

Emotional intelligence, Intelligence, Psychology

Emotional Intelligence is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and others.

By Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence

If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world.

By Robert K. Cooper

Emotional intelligence, Stress

As much as 80% of adult “success” comes from EQ.

By Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence, Short, Success