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Emotional Intelligence: Improving Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Empathy

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence

In order for us to be emotionally facile or to have like emotional smarts, emotional facility, emotional capability, we need to be comfortable with a lot of different kinds of emotional experiences. So you might be somebody who's trying to develop contentment, as I would say, most of us are. But another way to think about this is like, what are the emotional experiences that maybe you're not so comfortable with? Because when those emotional experiences come along, you might not be comfortable relating to them either in yourself or in other people. And that brings emotional intelligence down if you want to think about it that way.

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