Emotional Intelligence 2.0 with Christina Eanes

Author, public speaker, career coach and host of the Quit Bleeping Around podcast, Christina Eanes joined the Book Insights podcast to discuss the bestseller Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Greaves and Bradberry. Here are some of her insights:

"Emotional intelligence is knowledge of our emotions, the ability to manage them, to recognize them in others, and to use the knowledge of ourselves and others to have the best interactions we can with them."

"I.Q. is often misunderstood. It was created to look at your ability to learn. It was developed for kids in school to figure out how to best determine the conditions for children learn. Society has turned that into measuring intelligence."

"Only 10% of people are truly self aware. Similarly, everyone thinks they're a good driver, but only a small percentage actually are. It's the same with self-awareness."

"Internal self-awareness is knowing what's going on within us. External self-awareness is understanding the impact we're having on others, our environment and our relationships. Very few people are skilled at both."

"Without fail when I have people list all the things they want in a leader, technical skills usually isn't even brought up. They're are all in relation to how the person plays well with others. Essentially emotional intelligence."

"A universal thing that helps is to pause. If you just pause that gives it a moment for that info to get to the prefrontal cortex of the brain where you can actually think about how you want to respond."

"We need to constantly question our perceptions. Our brain mostly makes statements. Instead, ask 'is everything ok?' Ask for feedback."

"I've always said emotions are data. It's an important thing that our minds and bodies are trying to tell us. We should listen to them but not be overtaken by them."

"Self-awareness has been called the meta-skill of the 21st century. It's the foundation for everything in our lives."