Emotional Intelligence Essay

Emotional Intelligence Flag football was exciting, but I was ecstatic for my first padded practice the summer going into sixth grade. It was my first football practice in full pads and I was so excited, I had only played flag football up until this so this was going to be the best day of my life. I was actually going to play real football, but I never thought that it would teach me one of the most influential lessons that I have ever learned. It was the perfect day for football, mid-seventies…

Over the last few months, I have read and annotated Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs. After being a journalist and publishing executive for 25 years, Heinrichs is now the professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Middlebury College in Vermont and travels the world as a presenter and persuasion expert. Published in 12 languages and 3 editions, Thank You For Arguing is a New York Times bestseller, along with…

Personal Effectiveness is the capacity to transfer ideas and information clearly in order to create a positive and energetic impact. It helps in gaining a clearer understanding of self-awareness which also helps in forming relationships with others and reduce personal stress. This topic is studied under the branch of ‘Positive Psychology’. Personal Effectiveness is often viewed from the angle of business management and the pioneers in this field are Dale Carnegie, Deepak Chopra, Stephen Covey,…

individual components that determine whether a person will conquer the obstacles that arise in life, and to what extent these obstacles will impact the person. In her article, Harrington (2012) lists several “key elements” of resilience which include emotional, spiritual, and family health (pp. 2-3). In this essay, I will examine my strengths and weaknesses in these areas of mental health and resilience and apply them to a difficult challenge that I have faced in my own life. A person’s…

BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs, explains some of the major differences among people. It deals with four pairs of preferences: extraversion and introversion; sensing and intuition; thinking and feeling; and judgment and perception. The preference for extraversion and introversion is concerned with the direction of an individual’s energy. Extraversion is the preference for dealing with people, situations,…

The three main parts of the coping brain, are Thinking, Emotional, and Reptilian. Those are to be the main subjects of this essay. The human brain is the most complex thing we know of, but yet we know very little about it. However, we do know that in times of stress or worry, each and every individual person has a unique way to cope with it. But the three parts of the brain, Thinking, Emotional, and Reptilian, are the base for all of the different ways we cope. Thinking or the neocortex, is…

Advisor Meeting On Tuesday, October 13 I met with my advisor EJ Presley to discuss my spring schedule. Mr. Presley did not plan my schedule, instead he instructed me on which classes I will need to take for my major. The first thin Mr. Presley did was look over my midterm grades; he saw my failing grade in Psychology and made a joke about how my mom will probably ground me when she sees the grade. He did tell me that I should be able to raise my grade as long as I start to study more. Mr.…

Behaviors and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood. In this study eudaimonic is used synonymous with moral values. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two hypotheses, “1) The eudaimonic behavior in late adolescence (19-20 years old) would predict greater emotional competence in young adulthood (23-24 years old); and 2) that emotional competence in young adulthood (23-24 years old) would reduce risk for anxious-depressive symptoms at the same age after controlling for prior emotional…

seek the answer to (Beebe 2014). The Medicine Wheel is a dynamic structure that has been used in numerous cultures to help people answer this question. The Medicine Wheel contains four equal components that include Spiritual, Physical, Mental and Emotional. By evaluating my life using these four components, I can reflect on past experiences to recognize how much I have matured as an individual. The Spiritual component of the Medicine Wheel emphasizes the importance of finding a sacred place in…

Imagine if you can know what causes people to behave a particular way, wouldn’t that be amazing in that it will help to eliminate a lot of future problems and make everyone happy? Attribution is the process through which we seek to identify the causes of others behaviours to gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispositions which is an aspect of social perception. Social perception is the process which we seek to know and understand other people. For instance, we may want to know why…