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 “Martin Luther King, Jr. will always be regarded as a leader who exhibited high levels of emotional intelligence. He was a spokesperson for many who at the time did not have a voice, and he even lost his life for it. He put others before himself, which demonstrates his empathetic character.”  

“Abraham Lincoln was both merciful and merciless, confident and humble, patient and persistent—able to mediate among factions and sustain the spirits of his countrymen. Lincoln displayed an extraordinary ability to absorb the conflicting wills of a divided people and reflect back to them an unbending faith in a unified future.

Winston Churchill tapped into the emotions of his country and rose to the challenge, balancing cold calculations with emotional understanding. Churchill was able to recognize and acknowledge his failures and keep moving forward despite sometimes harrowing challenges."

 *Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savard  Emotional Intelligence Magazine+

For decades, researchers have studied the reasons why a high IQ does not necessarily guarantee success. By the 1980s, psychologists and biologists, among others, were focusing on the important role other skill sets — needed to process emotional information — played in promoting worldly success, leadership, personal fulfillment and happy relationships.

In 1990, psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey of Yale theorized that a unitary intelligence underlay those other skill sets. They coined the term, emotional intelligence, which they broke down into four “branches”:

• Identifying emotions on a nonverbal level
• Using emotions to guide cognitive thinking
• Understanding the information emotions convey and the actions emotions generate
• Regulating one’s own emotions, for personal benefit and for the common good

As a science reporter for the New York Times, Goleman was exposed to Mayer’s and Salovey’s work and took the concept of emotional intelligence a step further. In his eponymous book from 1995, he argued that existing definitions of intelligence needed to be reworked. IQ was still important, but intellect alone was no guarantee of adeptness in identifying one’s own emotions or the emotional expressions of others. It took a special kind of intelligence, Goleman said, to process emotional information and utilize it effectively — whether to facilitate good personal decisions, to resolve conflicts or to motivate oneself and others.  

* Resilient Educator  The Editorial Team 

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