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The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.
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While trusting your gut can be scary and challenging at first, it’s an important skill for all entrepreneurs to learn so that they can confidently make the many decisions that will impact their business.
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Intuition is the great differentiator in business. Listening to, trusting, and acting on your intuitive intelligence separates you from the pack as most people are not listening to theirs.
When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer “At night,” or “In the shower,” or “Stuck in traffic.” You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, “Aha! I see what to do.
A recurrent theme in our interviews with [these] award-winning entrepreneurs was the powerful role of intuition—or instinct, gut feeling, a “spidey sense.”
Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have all said they use intuition for business and let’s face it, they have had quite a bit of success with it.
Our intuition, at least in part, is probably related to the experiences we’ve had and what we are doing is quickly processing an interpretation of a situation based on those experiences.
Entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Steve Jobs,and Oprah Winfrey rely on their intuition to make decisions. You can’t argue with success.
If you’re an entrepreneur, tapping into your intuition can play a critical role in helping you reach your goals.
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.