Concept of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and appropriately use emotions—both one’s own and those of others—leading to decisions and actions that benefit oneself and others.

Self-awareness is the ability to understand one’s own emotions, feelings, and thoughts. Self-awareness is highly valuable in both personal and professional life. It helps us recognize what we enjoy in our work and how to build a successful career path, inspiring us to work with full motivation. Self-awareness also enables better self-control, appropriate emotional expression, stronger self-esteem, improved social interactions, and better decision-making.

Self-awareness means recognizing and understanding oneself as an individual, including personality, actions, values, beliefs, emotions, feelings, thoughts, and needs. With high self-awareness, one can evaluate oneself objectively and accurately understand how others perceive them. This skill is essential and serves as the foundation for self-development.

Self-awareness is one way to enhance emotional intelligence. It can be divided into two aspects:

Internal self-awareness: Recognizing one’s own thoughts and emotions. Practicing this involves shifting from asking “Why” to asking “What.” For example, instead of “Why did I say that to my team?” ask “What made me speak to my team that way?”

External self-awareness: Recognizing how others perceive us. This can be developed by creating an open environment where colleagues or teammates can give honest feedback or criticism, helping us improve ourselves.

Self-awareness is beneficial in both personal and professional life because it helps us identify what we enjoy in our work and how to create a successful career path, which in turn inspires us to work wholeheartedly. It also improves self-control, emotional expression, self-esteem, social interactions, and decision-making.