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Part 3: Develop Your Emotional Skills
Chapter List
Chapter 8: Read People Correctly: Improving Your Ability to Identify Emotions
Chapter 9: Get in the Right Mood: Improving Your Ability to Use Emotions
Chapter 10: Predict the Emotional Future Accurately: Improving Your Ability to Understand Emotions
Chapter 11: Do It with Smart Feelings: Improving Your Ability to Manage Emotions
Part Overview
If emotional intelligence is really just that, a kind of intelligence, then how can you hope to become more emotionally intelligent? After all, many researchers claim that your IQ is what it is, and is relatively fixed throughout your life. Does the same hold for your emotional intelligence quotient? The answer is that we don’t know for sure, but we do know that people can acquire skills and knowledge. So, for example, emotional intelligence, as measured by the MSCEIT, is higher among middle-aged adults than among young adults. We are optimistic that the skills comprising emotional intelligence can be improved. After all, it is one purpose of this book to help you develop your emotional knowledge further and to enhance your emotional skills. Skill development in this area can start with knowledge. To truly develop these skills, you have to go well beyond simply reading this book into the realm of action. We’ll provide the knowledge you need to develop your emotional intelligence skills, and we’ll guide your actions. The rest, and the most critical part of development, is up to you.
