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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence

By Elaine Houston — 2020

Emotional intelligence (EI) forms the juncture at which cognition and emotion meet, it facilitates our capacity for resilience, motivation, empathy, reasoning, stress management, communication, and our ability to read and navigate a plethora of social situations and conflicts.

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ)