A sketch note on emotional intelligence

Dr. Lalit Kishore, Dean, Science Faculty, Parishkar College of Global Excellence, Jaipur, India

Key points abstracted from Wikipedia

Humans are thinking-feeling individual.

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the human ability to recognize and dynamic capacity to handle one's own and other people's emotions.

EI can be developed by learning to recognize and differentiate various feelings appropriately, and to use this learning to guide thinking and behavior to live positively and self-worth.

The ability model of EI by Peter Salovey and John Mayer focuses human potential to process emotional information and use it to navigate the social environment. It is said that better EI manifest itself in adaptive behaviours.

Daniel Goleman's EI model says EI consists of a set of mental health skills and characteristics that drive social and professional performance.

Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences holds that development of interpersonal intelligence (the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people) and intrapersonal intelligence (the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations) contribute to development of EI.

There are four aspects, namely, perceiving emotions, using emotions to facilitate various cognitive activities; understanding emotions and appreciate complicated relationships among emotions; and managing or regulating emotions.

Goleman’s EI model includes five main EI constructs, namely, self-awareness (the ability to know one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values and goals and recognize their impact on others while using gut feelings to guide decisions); self-regulation (ability to redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances); social skills (skills to managing relationships to move people in the desired direction); empathy (ability to have due consideration for other people's feelings in making decision and one's actions); and motivation - being driven to achieve for the sake of achievement.

Here is my ABC verse on EI.

A: Awareness about self as full of potentials and having optimism to improve oneself

B: Being self-reflective and self-regulated

C: Creating and nurturing social relationships

D: Doing things for their own worth as motivation or self-motivation

E: Empathy or understanding feelings of others by putting oneself in other’s shoes

Many educators feel that develop rational thinking skills and EI to develop the personality