Summary of David Walton's Introducing Emotional Intelligence

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The four elements of an emotionally intelligent approach are self-knowledge, managing your emotions, understanding others’ behaviors and feelings, and managing your relationships.
#2 Self-awareness is about understanding ourselves and knowing what pushes our buttons and why. It is about recognizing our past and our self-image, and how they affect how we choose to interpret other people’s behavior.
#3 Being on automatic pilot reduces your conscious engagement with what you are doing, and there are risks attached. But being in the mindless state of automatic pilot opens you up to other problems. You can become prone to old habits and behaviors, and events and situations around you can trigger old feelings and sensations that become barriers.
#4 Mindfulness is the ability to be present in the moment and aware of your feelings. It helps you recognize when your approach to dealing with others is getting skewed, and it gives you greater control over your feelings.

Sujets

• Emotions

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669365099
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on David Walton's Introducing Emotional Intelligence
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The four elements of an emotionally intelligent approach are self-knowledge, managing your emotions, understanding others’ behaviors and feelings, and managing your relationships.

#2

Self-awareness is about understanding ourselves and knowing what pushes our buttons and why. It is about recognizing our past and our self-image, and how they affect how we choose to interpret other people’s behavior.

#3

Being on automatic pilot reduces your conscious engagement with what you are doing, and there are risks attached. But being in the mindless state of automatic pilot opens you up to other problems. You can become prone to old habits and behaviors, and events and situations around you can trigger old feelings and sensations that become barriers.

#4

Mindfulness is the ability to be present in the moment and aware of your feelings. It helps you recognize when your approach to dealing with others is getting skewed, and it gives you greater control over your feelings.

#5

When you can identify and name your emotions as they arise, you will become more sensitive and aware. Naming your feelings helps you stay in control of yourself. Thinking about your own feelings, as well as those of others, helps you understand them better.

#6

There are several well-known ideas about the process involved in generating feelings and emotions. They describe a sequence that involves noticing things that trigger thinking about their significance or meaning. Depending on whether the meaning is perceived as positive or negative, changes in brain chemistry alert the body for any physical activity necessary.

#7

There are many things going on right now, stimuli surrounding you in your immediate environment, sensations in your body, and thoughts and feelings in your mind.

#8

Self-awareness is more than paying attention thoroughly. It is about changing how you pay attention. It involves suspending judgement for a time and putting your goals in the back seat while you describe what is actually going on rather than what you think should be happening.

#9

Autopilot is the act of operating on automatic pilot, without any awareness or control. It can be dangerous, as it can lead to negative reactions and behaviors. It can also lead to positive reactions and behaviors that you weren’t aware of.

#10

People differ in how they describe themselves as optimists or pessimists. Pessimists have a generalized sense of doubt about the future, while optimists are generally confident about the future and believe that outcomes will be positive.