Intrapersonal skills, such as positive internal dialogue and compassion, are essential for emotional intelligence and effective decision-making in both personal and professional contexts. The document highlights the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) over intelligence quotient (IQ), suggesting that 80% of success is contingent on EI skills, which are often neglected in traditional education. It emphasizes the need for individuals to develop self-awareness and management of their emotions to improve interactions and overall well-being.

1. Intrapersonal Skills

2. Intrapersonal Skills
Intrapersonal skills are those skills and
communications that occur within a person's own
mind. Intrapersonal skills initiate an appropriate
reaction and attitude because of positive internal
dialogue, occurring within the mind.
Awareness of your personal inner dialogue is
the first step to improving your intrapersonal
skills.

3. Visualization
Visualization is an intrapersonal skill used by athletes,
actors and musical performers to prep themselves to
give the best performance they are capable of before
they embark on an event.

4. Recognizing Negativity
It is quite natural to have occasional negative
thoughts, but an excess of negative thinking can
reproduce negativity in your life.
Skilled intrapersonal communicators can turn around
a negative thought pattern and use it to bring fresh
and inspiring ideas into their day. Attitude is
everything when dealing with negativity and with
practice.

5. Compassion
Having compassion for others is an intrapersonal skill
that allows you to see things from the perspective of
others, and is important for teachers, team leaders
and anyone working closely with other people.

6. Positive Decision Making
Positive decision making is a necessary intrapersonal
skill required for many professions as well as for a
healthy, happy personal life. Well-developed
intrapersonal decision-making skills can be achieved
with practice. When faced with the decision-making
process, you
must available
choices
be able to scan
through the in your
mind, consider each
alternative and come to a practical decision
without inner conflict and Confusion.

7. Intrapersonal skills are the foundations of a successful
career. This is emotional intelligence, the ability to
know, understand and mange your own emotions.
ARE YOU EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT?

8. Before we move ahead please note
that:
IQ means intelligence quotient
EQ means emotional quotient
EI means emotional intelligence

9. WHAT ARE EMOTIONS ?
Happiness, fear, anger, affection, shame, disgust, surprise, lust,
sadness,
elation, love, frustration, anxiety, failure, achievement etc.
The above are the emotions which directly affect our day-to-day
life.
There are TWO dimensions of emotions:
Physiological side: ‘Emotion’ is a complex state
of human mind, involving bodily changes of
widespread character such as breathing, pounding heart,
The ‘feelings’, are what
one
flushed face, sweating palms, pulse rate,
etc.
Psychological side, a state
of excitement. experiences as the

10. Examples of some of the emotions:
 She is too sensitive.
 He takes everything too personally.
 He is jealous of his colleagues.
 My boss is always in a hostile mood.
 She does not understand the feelings of others.
 He is always nagging others.
 Nobody understands/listens to me.
 Themanagement is way out of touch with
employee’s emotions.
 Why does it happen with me only in life.
 I am always nice with the people around me.
The above statementsrefer to
various emotions we experience in our day
to day life.

11. What Exactly Is EI
Emotional intelligence is simply defined
as: knowing what feels good, what
feels bad, and how to get from bad to
good.
Knowing your emotions and knowing
emotion of others.
It refers to emotional management skills
which provide competency to balance
emotions and reason so as to maximize
long term happiness.

12. Are we giving EI education in schools
/colleges
NO. Our educational system gives stress on IQ and not on EQ. We
are taught History, Hindi, English, Geography, Physics,
anthropology, Botany, Computers, Medicine, Engineering etc.
We are not TAUGHT how to handle frustration, anxieties, stress,
failure, depression, burnout, inferiority complexes, ego problems
We are not told to learn how to manage emotions i.e.; interaction,
coordination, Adjustment, communication
We are expected to learn all these from our parents, peer group of
other role models
At the later stages of our lives we are told to master emotional
competencies to be successful.

13. IQ v/s EQ
(Intelligence Quotient v/s Emotional Quotient)
The research
shows that IQ can
help you
to be successful
to
the extent of
20 percent only
in life.
The rest of
80
percent
success
depends on your
EQ
80%
EQ
20% IQ

14. EQ
IQ
THE PERSONALITY
The
HEAD
The
HEART

15. Characteristics of a High EI
Person
A time to wait and a time to watch,
A time to be aggressive and a time to be passive,
A time to be together and a time to be
alone, A time to fight and a time to love,
A time to work and a time to
play, A time to cry and a time to
laugh,
A time to confront and a time to
withdraw, A time to speak and a time to
be silent,

16. Characteristics of a low EI
Person
“If only I had a different job … …”
“If only I had finished graduation … …”
“If only I had been handsome/beautiful
…”
“If only my spouse had stopped drinking
…” “If only I had been born rich and
famous…” “If only I had good contacts…”
“If only I had better friends …”
“If only I had married someone else …”

17. CONCLUSION: Applying EI makes you feel
comfortable within your own skin and
with
people around you. Yo
u
can also
understand what makes you incompatible
with certain people or jobs and learn ways
to deal with the emotional difficulties ease.
You can also understand the specific
feelings that cause you stress and learn
ways to become more at peace.