Emotional Intelligence Session 3

The questions we asked at the meeting seemed to be:

Am I self-aware? Am I able to manage how I respond to my emotions? Am I able to feel how other people are feeling?

How do I not go overboard and turn self-awareness (which is being aware that my feelings and thoughts could impact my own actions and other people's well-being) into self-consciousness (which is overly introverted, shy, timid and withdrawn).

There is a fine line? Is there not?

Is awareness management same as always thinking ahead and think before you leap? Am I becoming a Thinking Machine? What happens to spontaneity? to authenticity?

These are questions that I myself constantly try to balance.

Of course there are two things that I believe in:

First, I have a free will. It's up to be to learn to control it, to strengthen it, to use it. I decide. And that means I can decide when to be deliberative and when to be intuitive. Second, finding the balance of when to do which is a trial and error act, a dance between this and that.

The more deliberate and conscious I am that I have a choice in the process, the better I get at it. Though I might not have been favored by nature to have high EQ, through nurturing and my own deliberate practicing I can become someone who adjusts intuitively to what is required--whether the occasion requires spontaneous gaiety or solemn respectfulness.

And doing the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People may just be one of the ways to improve EQ.

Also, welcome first time LPG attendees John and Yang to LPG.

More info and materials on the session can be found => LPG event notice.

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