Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions positively to relieve stress and enhance communication, relationships, and decision-making. It encompasses four key attributes: self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, and relationship management, and is crucial for personal and professional success. High emotional intelligence is linked to better performance, health outcomes, and strong interpersonal connections.

1. Emotional Intelligence

2. What is emotional intelligence?
• Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use
and manage your own emotions in positive ways to
relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with
others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
• Emotional intelligence helps you to get success in
academic and official life, build stronger relationships
and achieve your all career goals. It helps you to connect
with your feelings and make strong decisions on what is
good for you and what matters most to you. Emotional
intelligence is commonly defined in for attributes:

3. 1. Self-management
•It helps you to control impulsive
feelings and behaviors and manage your
emotions in healthy ways to take
initiative, follow your commitments and
adapt to changing circumstances.

4. 2. Self-awareness
•It helps you to bring awareness in yourself
to recognize your own emotions and the way
they affect your thoughts and behaviors. It
also helps you to know your strengths and
weakness that helps you to gain self-
confidence.

5. 3. Social awareness
•You have empathy and that enables you
to understand the emotions, needs and
concerns of other people and recognize
the power dynamics in a group or
organization.

6. 4. Relationship management
•It helps you to know how to maintain
good relationships with others, do clear
communication, motivate others, work
well in a team, and manage the arising
conflicts.

7. Why is emotional intelligence so important?
• Not all the smartest people are most successful or
most fulfilled in life. You may know many people
who are academically brilliant but unsuccessful at
work or in their personal relationships. The
intellectual brilliance is not the only thing to
achieve importance in life but it’s your emotional
intelligence that helps you to manage stress and
emotions in the final exams. Emotional
intelligence may affect:

8. Your performance at school or work
• Emotional intelligence can help you to navigate
between social complexities of school and
workplace, helps to motivate others and excel in
your career. When taking interviews or hiring
candidates for any job, emotional intelligence is
an important factor as important as technical
ability.

9. Your physical health
• If you are not managing your emotions you
probably not managing your stress to and this can
lead you to serious health problems. Uncontrolled
stress and emotions can cause high blood
pressure, which increases the risk of heart attack
and strokes and speed up aging process. The first
step to improving emotional intelligence is to
learn how to manage stress.

10. Your mental health
• Uncontrolled emotions and stress can also impact
your mental health but making you vulnerable to
anxiety and depression. If you are unable to
manage your emotions, you will also struggle to
build strong relationships. This can make you feel
alone and isolated and will be dangerous for your
mental health.

11. Your social intelligence
• Having your emotions in control will keep you
connected to the people around you. Social
intelligence enables you to recognize and
measures another person’s interest in you, reduce
stress by balancing your nervous system through
social communication, helps you feel happy and
loved.