Emotional intelligence (EI) is a set of emotional and social skills that collectively
establishes how well we perceive and express ourselves.
Emotional Intelligence shows how we:
 cope with challenges and stress
 use emotional information in an effective meaningful way
 predicts success in your life and work
 in an effective meaningful way
EI skills are abilities that allow you to understand and manage emotions. These skills
are linked but not limited to a range of the following benefits:
 academic achievement
 decision-making abilities
 overall success in life
 build relationships
 reduce self-questioning
 reduce team stress
 defuse conflict
 improve job satisfaction
 goal setting abilities
Some Signs of Emotional Intelligence Invisible Barriers are:
 Self-doubt
 Self-questioning
 Imposter syndrome
 Ageism
 Feeling unworthy
 Negative beliefs
 Loneliness
 Lack of purpose
 Loss of meaning in life
Take Jennifer Lopez for example:
Following Jennifer Lopez’s show-stopping performance at the Super Bowl,
Thrive Global posted an interview with her where she talked about how she’d
been plagued by self-questioning many times throughout her career. However,
rather than give into it, she channeled it to work harder. “I just kept going … and
it started paying off,” she said. “But more than that, I started believing in myself,
I started believing in the fact that I wasn’t an impostor, that I wasn’t a fake.”
Food for Thought: by: Mark Cuban
“The better you can understand yourself, the better you can be