With Great Emotional Intelligence Comes Great Responsibility (with Matt Perelstein)
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We can\\u2019t control our emotions, but we can control how we respond to them. That\\u2019s the power of emotional intelligence, to be able to better manage what we do with how we feel in the moment in order to be productive rather than destructive. The issue is that so many of us haven\\u2019t been provided the education or tools to deal with our own emotions or those of others, which creates a lot of tension in many social issues today.
The process of becoming more emotionally intelligent is simple, but difficult to master:
- Awareness
- Acceptance
- Action (or not)
It starts by slowing down so that you can become aware of your emotions and what it means for you. Then we can embrace how we\\u2019re feeling, to acknowledge its presence, so that we can start taking steps to do (or not to do) something with it.
In this episode, my guest Matt Perelstein of EQ4Peace shares his passion for emotional intelligence education as we nerd out about how to use this as a tool to train our emotional muscles for both internal and external peace.
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Timestamps:
[5:53] We were never taught how to train the right-side of our brains
[11:25] The connection between the heart, mind, and body
[13:21] Decisions should be based on both thoughts and feelings
[14:57] How to develop the emotional muscle to better feel and communicate our emotions
[27:09] Emotional education in schools
[31:38] Example exercise to identify emotions
[34:22] How to sustain emotional intelligence
[42:58] We\'re getting closer to quantify EQ, but it still requires practice
[46:55] 5 Core emotions
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Resources:
4,000 feeling words to increase emotional vocabulary: http://eqi.org/fw.htm
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