Emotional intelligence provides a lot of advantages. It’s easy to pick out those who have high emotional intelligence. It’s also easy to pick out those who are lacking in this important characteristic. Emotional intelligence mightn’t be the most exciting thing to develop. But it might be the most important.
… own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one’s goals.”