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What Is Your Emotional IQ?

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It is generally said to include three skills:

emotional awareness, including the ability to identify your own emotions and those of others;
the ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problems solving;
the ability to manage emotions, including the ability to regulate your own emotions, and the ability to cheer up or calm down another person.

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