What is Emotional Intelligence?

Another video from Mark Walsh, looking at what is emotional intelligence (EI)? and some tips on how to build our emotional intelligence.

 

 

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Discussion

  1. Paul Nicholas

    Hi Mark,
    I enjoyed this very much – thank you.
    One reason I found it stimulating is that I commonly take issue with elements of the concept of EI – and note an increasing number of authors actually stating quite explicitly “Goleman is wrong”. These differences I believe are healthy and stimulating, and feed a debate that is edging us ever closer to more useful models and descriptions of our emotional interactions and “ecology”. I recently delivered a couple of seminars on “Mirror Neurons and Mimesis in Leadership” – which I deliberately and provocatively subtitled “Or why I don’t give a monkey’s for emotional intelligence” – the principal reference in the quip being to work on mirror neuron systems in primates that are almost certainly the roots of all those behaviours termed “emotional intelligence”.
    I also enjoyed the last words of your botanical accomplice, and though I laughed I felt there was something quite profound behind this. I was immediately reminded of Coleridge’s marginal notes to his Ancient Mariner – which I’ll reproduce below.
    I’m sure that as our understanding of EI (or Social Intelligence, or whatever we end up calling it) develops an understanding of and empathy with nature and other living things will be found to be part of it.
    Looking forward to more.
    Best wishes
    Paul
    “And ever and anon
    through out his
    future life an agony
    constraineth him to
    travel from land
    to land;

    And to teach, by
    his own example,
    love and reverence
    to all things that God
    made and loveth.”