Trump's IQ? How About His Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. It's also known as emotional quotient (EQ).

Key elements of EI: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.

Benefits of EI:

• Better relationships: EI can help you build stronger relationships with others.
• Better communication: EI can help you communicate effectively with others.
• Better decision making: EI can help you make informed decisions.
• Better conflict management: EI can help you resolve conflict effectively.
• Better stress management: EI can help you relieve stress.

How to improve EI:

• Name your feelings
• Understand how your feelings impact your behavior
• Pause and reconsider your response before acting
• Develop your social skills
• Practice active listening
• Use open body language
• Develop rapport with others
• Express leadership
• History of EI

The term EI was coined in 1990 by researchers John Mayer and Peter Salovey. Psychologist Daniel Goleman later popularized the term in his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.

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Click here for a video describing how the above applies to Donald J Trump.  

Emotional Intellence Education For Children

If you have children, there is NO better time to introduce them to critical thinking than NOW. Below is one example of developing Emotional Intelligence within the context of critical thinking. For more information, here is her web site: https://critikid.com/

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An Interesting Science-Based Stress Reducer

"What does it mean to 'put things into perspective'? It's expounded on from all corners of the internet, serving as the go-to mantra for self-help gurus. But as a behavioral scientist, I'm not sold. In most cases, it's a vague, blanket-style statement that has little practical meaning. It doesn't do much at all to reduce a person's anxiety. And anxiety, we know, is best resolved through actionable coping-based tactics.

"The emotionally intelligent see valuable insights in this four-word phrase. They see what it really means when you say 'put things into perspective.' It begins with the brain."

Click on this link for a brief presentation of the details.

Donald J Trump: The Dullest Knive In The Drawer (BUT - - -)

"But hold on. I ask myself: How could Trump have become president, and now clinch the Republican nomination for the presidency for a third time, if he doesn’t have something in the brain bank? Even if Trump doesn’t read, can’t follow a logical argument, and has the attention span of a fruit fly, I keep believing he must have some intelligence.

"Well, it turns out there’s another form of intelligence, called 'emotional intelligence.'

"Emotional intelligence is a concept developed by two psychologists, John Mayer of the University of New Hampshire and Yale’s Peter Salovey, and popularized by Dan Goleman in his 1996 book of the same name.

"Mayer and Salovey define emotional intelligence as the ability to do two things: 'understand and manage our own emotions,' and 'recognize and influence the emotions of others.'

"True, Trump hasn’t displayed much capacity for the first. He’s thin-skinned, narcissistic, and vindictive. As dozens of Republican foreign policy experts have put it: 'He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate criticism.'

"Okay, but what about Mayer and Salovey’s second aspect of emotional intelligence — influencing the emotions of others?

"This is where Trump’s brain outperforms the brains of ordinary mortals. He knows how to manipulate people. He has an uncanny ability to discover their emotional vulnerabilities — their fears, anxieties, prejudices, and darkest desires — and use them for his own purposes.

"To put it another way, Trump is an extraordinarily talented conman."

Click on the link below for the full picture of his stupidity:

Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump?