Quotes from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“The biggest obstacle to increasing your self-awareness is the tendency to avoid the discomfort that comes from seeing yourself as you really are.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Good decisions require far more than factual knowledge. They are made using self-knowledge and emotional mastery when they’re needed most.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“The link between EQ and earnings is so direct that every point increase in EQ adds $1,300 to an annual salary.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it’s the same at age 15 as it is at age 50.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Your brain has a difficult time distinguishing between what you see with your eyes and what you visualize in your mind.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“The tricky thing about your brain is that, once a negative mood takes over, you lose sight of what’s good in your life, and suddenly you hate your job, you’re frustrated with family and friends, you’re dissatisfied with your accomplishments, and your optimism about the future goes out the window. Deep down, you know that things aren’t as bad as they seem, but your brain just won’t hear it.”
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“EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs. It’s the single biggest predictor of performance in the workplace and the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Self-awareness is the process of getting to know yourself from the inside out and the outside in.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Self-management is more than resisting explosive or problematic behavior. The biggest challenge that people face is managing their tendencies over time and applying their skills in a variety of situations.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Emotions serve an important purpose—they clue you into things that you’ll never understand if you don’t take the time to ask yourself why.”
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“people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Stay aware of your good moods and the foolish decisions these moods can lead to, and you’ll be able to enjoy feeling good without any regrets.”
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“The secret to winning this culture game is to treat others how they want to be treated, not how you would want to be treated.”
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“Physical appearance is more straightforward—what you wear sends a pretty clear, established message about how you feel. For example, wearing old sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and having disheveled hair every day tells the world you’ve given up, while overdressing for every occasion and never missing your weekly haircut lets people know you are trying too hard.”
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“Your personality is a result of your preferences, such as your inclination to introversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can’t be used to predict emotional intelligence.”
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“Hard times of any kind—financial, familial, or job-related—create more intense and often prolonged negative emotions that ultimately result in stress. In addition to the physical costs of stress, such as weight gain and heart disease, stress also taxes our mental resources.”
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“Greeting someone by name is one of the most basic and influential social awareness strategies you can adopt. It’s a personal and meaningful way to engage someone. If you have a tendency to withdraw in social situations, greeting someone by name is a simple way to stick your neck out; using someone’s name breaks down barriers and comes across as warm and inviting. Even if you are a social butterfly, greeting people by name is a strategy to live by.”
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“Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them.”
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“When you’re stuck in a down mood, it’s not a good time to make important decisions. You’ll have to remain aware of the mood and understand it if you hope to keep it from leading you to make mistakes that will only pull you down further. Not only is it OK to reflect upon recent events that may have brought on the mood, but this is also a good idea—as long as you don’t dwell on them for too long—because often that’s all it takes to get the mood to pass.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“This sounds basic, almost too basic to mention, but listening is a strategy and a skill that is losing ground in society. Most people think they are good listeners, but if adults played “the Telephone Game” today, how accurate would the final message be? Listening requires focus, and focus isn’t easy because we’re stretched in several directions. Listening”
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“People high in self-awareness are remarkably clear in their understanding of what they do well, what motivates and satisfies them, and which people and situations push their buttons.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“10 Watch EQ at the Movies Hollywood. It’s the entertainment capital of the world known for glitz, glamour, and celebrity. Believe it or not, Hollywood is also a hotbed of EQ, ripe for building your social awareness skills. After all, art imitates life, right? Movies are an abundant source of EQ skills in action, demonstrating behaviors to emulate or completely avoid. Great actors are masters at evoking real emotion in themselves; as their characters are scripted to do outrageous and obvious things, it’s easy to observe the cues and emotions on-screen. To build social awareness skills, you need to practice being aware of what’s happening with other people; it doesn’t matter if you practice using a box office hero or a real person. When you watch a movie to observe social cues, you’re practicing social awareness. Plus, since you are not living the situation, you’re not emotionally involved, and the distractions are limited. You can use your mental energy to observe the characters instead of dealing with your own life. This month, make it a point to watch two movies specifically to observe the character interactions, relationships, and conflicts. Look for body language clues to figure out how each character is feeling and observe how the characters handle the conflicts. As more information about the characters unfold, rewind and watch past moments to spot clues you may have missed the first time. Believe it or not, watching movies from the land of make-believe is one of the most useful and entertaining ways to practice your social awareness skills for the real world.”
― Travis Bradberry, quote from Emotional Intelligence 2.0: With Access Code

“Remember, planning the future and reflecting on the past are valuable exercises, but doing this throughout your day interferes with what is in front of you—your present.”
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“Much of doing and saying the right things in social situations comes from understanding the rules of the culture game. Our world is a melting pot of vastly different cultures. These cultures interact, live, and conduct business with each other according to very specific rules. There is no way around it, and it is a requirement to learn how to become emotionally intelligent across cultures. The secret to winning this culture game is to treat others how they want to be treated, not how you would want to be treated. The trick is identifying the different rules for each culture. To make matters even more complicated, the rules you should be watching for and mastering include the rules not only of ethnic culture but also of family and business culture. How do you go about mastering multiple sets of rules at once? The first step is to listen and watch even more and for a longer period of time than you would with people from your own culture. Collect multiple observations and think before you jump to conclusions. Consider yourself new in town, and before you open your mouth and insert your foot, observe other people’s interactions. Look for similarities and differences between how you would play the game versus how others are playing it. Next,”
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