Ardeshir Nowzari: Emotional intelligence and its role‏

According to psychologists, emotional intelligence plays a very important role in a person success. Some of the major characteristics which represent emotional intelligence are mood-management, self-motivation, impulse control, self awareness and people skills. They are interpersonal like self management and impulse control or intrapersonal such as people skills. People skills and self-awareness are the most important tasks which contribute major role in a person success.

People skills is one of the most important EQ skills which contributes to a person success. Building relationship is a crucial way to involve us in the society and if we were social person it would be easier to be know by others, so the ability which makes us more connected to friends and family is a key skill. Each person should be aware of other people’s feelings to be able to treat them in an optimum and proper manner and, this wisely treatment return a positive feedback which reflects appreciations. Thus knowing other’s feelings and respecting them is just finding the correct way to be successful among them.

Self-awareness is another important EQ skills which tends to make people successful. Knowing and controlling your emotions is another building block of emotional intelligence which helps us to have acceptable reaction in different situations. Being aware of gut feelings is important as, it is not practical to control your reaction without being aware of gut feeling, so knowing your internal gut feeling is the very first step which sustains the ability to control it. For example reinterpretation fear or sadness, you need knowing your body reactions to be able to control them in different situations and that gives the chance to keep progressing in the intrapersonal relationships.

There are some important emotional characteristics which are key to a person’s success. Among them, people skills and self awareness play the major role in building relationship and affecting the others as well as, knowing and controlling intrapersonal emotions. In conclusion, knowing and boosting people skills and self awareness will lead us to be successful.