• glimse@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This is bait but emotional intelligence is understanding your emotions, not the emotions having intelligence

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      10 days ago

      The contemporary use is from management theory.

      It was a metric made up to measure management candidates. From there it got into the self-help industry, and now that’s why everyone posts it on their dating profiles, because are looking for someone to manage their emotions for them.

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      I usually think of it in terms of recognizing others’ emotions and adjusting your words/actions to better cooperate or de-escalate