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Dr. Travis Bradberry Coauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at TalentSmart Why You Need Emotional Intelligence To Succeed Jan 12, 2015 486,927 3,124 569 When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ. Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack. Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results. Emotional intelligence is made up of four core skills that pair up under two primary competencies: personal competence and social competence. Personal competence comprises your selfawareness and selfmanagement skills, which focus more on you individually than on your interactions with other people. Follow Why You Need Emotional Intelligence To Succeed Dr. Travis Bradberry 5 Words Successful (and Happy) People Never Use Jeff Haden Will The "2nd Economy" Really Wipe Out 100 Million… Bernard Marr Why You Should Get Ridiculously Good At Email … Eric Santos How Not To Climb a Mountain (or How to Kill Your StartUp) Sebastian Thrun What Are Your Guiding Principles? Bruce Kasanoff The Truth About What It Means To Be Successful James Altucher Recruiting, and retaining, women in tech Caterina Fake The Limits of Loyalty: When Habits Change, You’re Toast Nir Eyal Will You Outgrow Your Job in 2015? Liz Ryan My First 90 Days: Suck Up to the Right People Guy Kawasaki My First 90 Days: Founding 400 Companies Feels Like… Richard Branson My First 90 Days: Master SelfCare First Before Divin… Deepak Chopra MD... Charlie Hebdo's First Post Attack Cover, and Other… Isabelle Roughol 3 Ways to Make It Happen… When You Think You Can't Kara Goldin My New Years Resolution: No More People Pleasing! Mika Brzezinski Amazon Crashes Hollywood's Party John C Abell How To Make Sure You're On Larry Page's 2015 Wish List Pulse Write a new post Home Profile Connections Jobs Interests Business Service Advanced 1 7 Search for people, jobs, companies, and more...

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Dr. Travis BradberryCoauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at

TalentSmart

Why You Need EmotionalIntelligence To Succeed

Jan 12, 2015 486,927 3,124 569

When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missinglink in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highestIQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many peoplehad always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ. Decades of researchnow point to emotional intelligence as the critical factor that sets star performersapart from the rest of the pack.

Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. Itaffects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personaldecisions that achieve positive results. Emotional intelligence is made up of fourcore skills that pair up under two primary competencies: personal competence andsocial competence.

Personal competence comprises your selfawareness and selfmanagement skills,which focus more on you individually than on your interactions with other people.

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Why You Need EmotionalIntelligence To SucceedDr. Travis Bradberry

5 Words Successful (andHappy) People Never UseJeff Haden

Will The "2nd Economy"Really Wipe Out 100 Million…Jobs?Bernard Marr

Why You Should GetRidiculously Good At Email …2015Eric Santos

How Not To Climb a Mountain(or How to Kill Your StartUp)Sebastian Thrun

What Are Your GuidingPrinciples?Bruce Kasanoff

The Truth About What ItMeans To Be SuccessfulJames Altucher

Recruiting, and retaining,women in techCaterina Fake

The Limits of Loyalty: WhenHabits Change, You’re ToastNir Eyal

Will You Outgrow Your Job in2015?Liz Ryan

My First 90 Days: Suck Up tothe Right PeopleGuy Kawasaki

My First 90 Days: Founding400 Companies Feels Like…Starting 400 New JobsRichard Branson

My First 90 Days: MasterSelfCare First Before Divin…Into a New JobDeepak Chopra MD...

Charlie Hebdo's First PostAttack Cover, and Other…Headlines for TuesdayIsabelle Roughol

3 Ways to Make It Happen…When You Think You Can'tKara Goldin

My New Years Resolution: NoMore People Pleasing!Mika Brzezinski

Amazon Crashes Hollywood'sPartyJohn C Abell

How To Make Sure You're OnLarry Page's 2015 Wish List

Pulse Write a new post

Home Profile Connections Jobs Interests Business Services Advanced

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Personal competence is your ability to stay aware of your emotions and manageyour behavior and tendencies.

SelfAwareness is your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stayaware of them as they happen.

SelfManagement is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stayflexible and positively direct your behavior.

Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationshipmanagement skills; social competence is your ability to understand other people’smoods, behavior, and motives in order to respond effectively and improve the qualityof your relationships.

Social Awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in otherpeople and understand what is really going on.

Relationship Management is your ability to use awareness of your emotionsand the others’ emotions to manage interactions successfully.

Emotional Intelligence, IQ, and Personality Are Different

Emotional intelligence taps into a fundamental element of human behavior that isdistinct from your intellect. There is no known connection between IQ and emotionalintelligence; you simply can’t predict emotional intelligence based on how smartsomeone is. Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it’s the same at age 15 as it is atage 50. Emotional intelligence, on the other hand, is a flexible set of skills that canbe acquired and improved with practice. Although some people are naturally moreemotionally intelligent than others, you can develop high emotional intelligence evenif you aren’t born with it.

Personality is the final piece of the puzzle. It’s the stable “style” that defines each ofus. Personality is the result of hardwired preferences, such as the inclination towardintroversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can’t be used to predictemotional intelligence. Also like IQ, personality is stable over a lifetime and doesn’tchange. IQ, emotional intelligence, and personality each cover unique ground andhelp to explain what makes a person tick.

Emotional Intelligence Predicts Performance

How much of an impact does emotional intelligence have on your professionalsuccess? The short answer is: a lot! It’s a powerful way to focus your energy in onedirection with a tremendous result. TalentSmart tested emotional intelligencealongside 33 other important workplace skills, and found that emotional intelligenceis the strongest predictor of performance, explaining a full 58% of success in all

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types of jobs.

Your emotional intelligence is the foundation for a host of critical skills—it impactsmost everything you do and say each day.

Of all the people we’ve studied at work, we've found that 90% of top performers arealso high in emotional intelligence. On the flip side, just 20% of bottom performersare high in emotional intelligence. You can be a top performer without emotionalintelligence, but the chances are slim.

Naturally, people with a high degree of emotional intelligence make more money—an average of $29,000 more per year than people with a low degree of emotionalintelligence. The link between emotional intelligence and earnings is so direct thatevery point increase in emotional intelligence adds $1,300 to an annual salary.These findings hold true for people in all industries, at all levels, in every region ofthe world. We haven’t yet been able to find a job in which performance and payaren’t tied closely to emotional intelligence.

You Can Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

The communication between your emotional and rational “brains” is the physicalsource of emotional intelligence. The pathway for emotional intelligence starts in thebrain, at the spinal cord. Your primary senses enter here and must travel to the frontof your brain before you can think rationally about your experience. However, firstthey travel through the limbic system, the place where emotions are generated. So,we have an emotional reaction to events before our rational mind is able to engage.Emotional intelligence requires effective communication between the rational andemotional centers of the brain.

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Plasticity is the term neurologists use to describe the brain’s ability to change. Asyou discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions ofmicroscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers ofyour brain branch off small “arms” (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells. Asingle cell can grow 15,000 connections with its neighbors. This chain reaction ofgrowth ensures it’s easier to kick a new behavior into action in the future.

As you train your brain by repeatedly practicing new emotionally intelligentbehaviors, your brain builds the pathways needed to make them into habits. Beforelong, you begin responding to your surroundings with emotional intelligence withouteven having to think about it. And just as your brain reinforces the use of newbehaviors, the connections supporting old, destructive behaviors will die off as youlearn to limit your use of them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dr. Travis Bradberry is the awardwinning coauthor of the #1 bestselling book,Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's leadingprovider of emotional intelligence tests and training, serving more than 75% ofFortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has writtenfor, or been covered by, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, FastCompany, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, andThe Harvard Business Review.

If you'd like to learn how to increase your emotional intelligence (EQ), consider

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Because that involve me , you and them, without which I would not exist and wouldgo nowhere. The three of us create, hold and release thoughts, emotions andbehaviors, which should be measured, balanced, sustained and directed to a mutualwinwin.

Thanks Travis, your article represent a unique and practical analysis.

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says. "I'd be too scared."

"Sure you could," I think as he walks away. Paddleboarding is hard but not thathard. First you fall off. Then you fall off some more. But soon you get better. Andwhat's to be afraid of? You get wet and climb back on. Except for some occasionalembarrassment, the downside is no greater than that of jumping in a swimming pool.

And very soon paddleboarding is relatively easy... and if it's easy for a nonathleticguy like me it can be easy for anyone.

You just have to be wiling to try.

I walked offstage after speaking to 4,500 people. A sound tech shakes his head."I could never do that," he says.

"Sure you could," I think. It's hard, but not that hard. First you struggle because youhaven't figured out what you might want to say doesn't matter all that matters iswhat your audience will benefit from hearing. Then you work and revise and findyour hook and your story. And you practice. And what's to be afraid of? That you'llfail? Sometimes we bomb when we speak to one person; the only difference is thedegree.

And in time speaking is relatively easy... and if it's relatively easy for someone asshy and insecure as me, it can be fairly easy for anyone.

You just have to be willing to try.

I climbed, stifflegged and sore, off my bike after riding 92 miles and climbing fourmountains complete the inaugural Alpine Loop Gran Fondo. "That wasimpressive," a volunteer says as he hands me a water bottle. "I could never do that."

"Sure, you could," I think. It was hard, but it was mainly just a question of putting inthe miles. First you ride 3 or 4 miles. Then 10 or so. In time you work up to 25milerides, then 50s. And occasionally you throw in a longer ride.

Months of training later (in my case a little less than four), you can finish a toughgran fondo... even if you're a birdlegged old guy who initially possessed the speed,power, and cardio fitness of a possum.

You just have to be willing to try.

Life throws up enough barriers. Genetics. Education. Intelligence. Athletic ability.

The list of reasons we can't do certain things is endless. No matter how hard I workI'll never be as talented as LeBron James. Or Allyson Felix. Or Serena Williams. OrStephen King or Stephen Hawking or Stephen Colbert.

They're all bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, more creative, or much funnier. Thebarriers I need to overcome to achieve that level of talent are likely likely impossibleto overcome. I can go far…but probably not that far.

But then there are the hundreds of barriers we construct all on our own without anyjustification. We don't know we can't; we just decide we can't. So we decide weshouldn't.

We decide whatever we might want to do is too hard, too challenging, or too scaryfor someone like us.

And that's why five of the worst words you can ever say are, "I could never do

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that."

Because, in almost every case, you can. Maybe not to a worldclass level, butdefinitely to a high level. The biggest difference between people like us and peoplewho do things we would like to do is they didn't reflexively decide to put up their ownbarriers. They didn't automatically decide they can't.

Instead they just decided to try…and then keep trying.

Granted we may never become Steve Jobs. Or Mark Cuban or Richard Branson orSara Blakely. The barriers to reaching their level of success may be too high.

But you can still be a better you than you currently think possible. You can stillachieve amazing things…and average things…and silly, frivolous things that havemeaning only to you.

All you have to do is decide to try.

And once you decide to try one thing, you'll quickly find you no longer put up thosebarriers to any other things you "can't" do. You'll be too busy enjoying all the things itturns out you can do, and dreaming up more things to try.

Think about it this way. You can't always control your level of success, but you cancontrol whether you take the first step towards any level of success: deciding to try.

(And just in case you didn't get the point: I'm definitely nothing special, so if I canoccasionally do somewhat challenging or interesting things, imagine what you cando... if you just try.)

I also write for Inc.com:

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20 Things to Say That Will Dramatically Improve Your Life

Check out my book of personal andprofessional advice,TransForm: DramaticallyImprove Your Career, Business,Relationships, and Life One Simple StepAt a Time. (PDF version here, Kindle versionhere.)

Instead of going all hyperbolic, here's the deal:If after 10 minutes you don't find at least 5things you can do to make your life better I'llrefund your money.

That way you have nothing to lose, andeverything to gain.

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