
No Hard Feelings
REWORK
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What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is about the ability to recognizea understand emotions. In successive work requires going one step deeper and understanding your own emotions, but also how to communicate those emotions given the specific situation that you are in. That's called emotional fluency, which is the ability to sense emotion and know when to translate that into action in a healthy and productive way. A great example of this is, i was last year leading a design project, and i noticed that a few days ahead of the dead line, i was just extremely irritated with everyone around me. And so i took a moment and walked round the block and thought to myself, i really like the people i'm working with.
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