All The Basis About E.I.
Emotional intelligence compromises our whole lives. It's been proven that someone who lacks a good base for this, has fewer chances to succeed in life. But what’s success? you may ask. It's different for everyone, it's based on our personal goals, and intentions in life, everyone seeks success differently, but certainly, it’s something everyone wishes to have. To claim yourself successful, you need to reflect on those actions, people, and situations that took you there.
Emotional intelligence helps us understand ourselves and others, but especially others. It helps you go through this roller coaster called life because not everything goes as planned. That’s when emotional intelligence comes in hand, it helps us live happily and understand that everything happens for a reason, as cliche as it sounds. For us, emotional intelligence is based on three main concepts which are self-awareness, empathy, and cooperation.
We believe that to solve a problem you should start from the root of it, by this we mean when there’s an issue you should evaluate yourself and your actions first rather than others. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, it takes a lot of self-confidence, self-control and self-love, which are qualities people tend to forget and not put into practice, but they are extremely important. In order to be okay with others, you should be with yourself too. Lacking these qualities can truly damage your relationships, as you aren’t satisfied with yourself, what makes you think you’ll be with others? makes no sense. Problem-solving starts from home, and as an individual, your “home” is your own self.
Empathy is one of the most amazing human capacities. This stimulates the interaction between people, allows them to help and show their kindness to others. Empathy has been very important in the history of humanity, it has avoided wars, it has united people creating alliances that will be remembered forever, but this has also helped both, us who are writing and you who’s reading.
Empathy can be called a tool to make you feel that a person cares about you, you care about knowing how this person is, what they are doing, you care about seeing them doing good, you care so much that you would put yourself in their shoes to help them, that is the power of empathy, to make someone feel that they are not alone, that you will always be there for them and that you will do anything to make them feel good. Empathy is not something that you give and receive back, but this shouldn't serve as an excuse to not show empathy to the world. Offering empathy to others is truly a beautiful feeling that everyone should put into practice.
Working as a team is very important since we can see and achieve things that would have been very difficult or impossible for ourselves. Some aspects that you improve when you work in a group are: When you have a diverse and well-focused team, weaknesses can be diminished. Find different people who are willing to cooperate and work for the same purpose and You trust and become trustworthy. Trust is the basic ingredient of teamwork, if you trust your staff and they trust you, it is much easier to achieve goals and solve problems.
In closing, we believe these are capacities needed to assure emotional intelligence, and to benefit others. These are some of the components that comprise a healthy mindset with environment. Our concern is based on how we consider humanity has lost touch with these aspects and hopefully we can restore them shortly. With this we conclude how important emotional intelligence is.
By María Camila Montes and
Carlos Guerra, Step 10
