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Chapter 9: Get in the Right Mood: Improving Your Ability to Use Emotions
There are strong links between emotions and thinking. We all know that there are times when emotions can assist our thinking and other times when they interfere with our work. Part of becoming an emotionally intelligent manager is to be able to match the mood to the situation. Getting into the right mood generates a helpful mind-set that is one of the keys to creative thinking, empathy, and vision. Sure, for some folks feelings don’t enhance their thinking and instead really mess it up. That happens to all of us sometimes. But to some people, it happens a lot of the time. That’s because they have an angry disposition or a joyful disposition, and their “normal” or baseline feeling is one of anger or joy (or some other feeling). We cannot separate feelings and thinking. The question isn’t just, When does emotion assist thinking? The question is also, Which emotions enhance our thinking process? In this chapter, we help you learn how emotions influence our thinking and then teach you how to get into the right mood for a given situation—the mood that helps you get to your objective.
