SENTIMENTAL (Emotional) intelligence:
Believe it or not, our IQ contributes only 20-25% to the life success. Interestingly rest of your achievement or success comes from “sentimental or emotional intelligence”. There are many examples, a person can be intellectually genius but emotionally inept, this disparity or an unbalance that can cause many problems in our everyday life.
Some of the subcategories of emotional intelligence are, my favorite; managing emotions, self-motivation, empathy, self-awareness and handling relations.
Our human brain has many sections but two most important sections, the first section thinks and the second one that feels. Often both sections of the brain operate independently but in consensus. Most importantly, the emotional mind is hasty (impulsive) and powerful. But logical or sensible mind, on the other hand, allows person contemplate (ponder) and then reflect accordingly. Mostly both the sections of mind work in harmony, but intense feelings often allow the emotional mind to dominate the rational ( logical) section of mind. Emotional mind is quicker than that rational (logical) mind, it goes into action without pausing even for a second to consider what exactly it is doing.
We all know strong emotions interfere with clear thinking and the “Anxiety” undermines the intellect.
A person who is able to find an intelligent balance of reasoning and emotions wins more and achieve more in all aspects (avenues) of life.