Post on 28-Dec-2015
What characteristics or competencies does it
take to have a successful career?
To be a leader?
What transforms the perpetually perplexed into perennial performers?
IQ
Unexplained
IQ
Unexplained
How Important is IQ?
The percentage of career success explained by IQ is at most 25%, perhaps as little as 4%
Verbal -
the ability to
use words
Visual - the
ability to
see things
in your mind
Physical - the ability
to use your
body well
Musical - the ability
to understand and
use music
Mathematical &
logical - the ability
to apply logic to
systems and
numbers
Introspective -
the ability
to understand
thoughts and
feelings in
yourself
Interpersonal - the
ability to relate
well to others,
people smarts
From Howard Gardner’s
Frames of Mind
The Seven
Intelligences
When I say the word “emotions”, how do you react?
What words come to mind?
What about terms like “instinct”? “Intuition”? “Gut
Feeling”? “Hunch”?
Emotional Intelligence
Let me read you a story …
“The Statue that Didn’t Look Right”
From Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, 2005
The Amygdala
Where emotional reactions originate
• Rational thought occurs in the neocortex, the thin layers that enfold the top of the brain
• Amygdala is much deeper– ring the brain stem atop the spinal
cord
From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 1995, p. 19
• Brain stores different information in different areas: memory, sight & sounds, smells, etc.
• Emotions an experience evokes are stored in the amygdala
From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 1995, p. 19
From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 1995, p. 19
• Whenever we have a preference of any kind or a compelling sense about something, that is a message from the amygdala. (p. 51)
• Via the amygdala’s related circuitry, particularly nerve pathways that run into the viscera, we can have a somatic response -- literally, a “gut feeling” -- to the choices we face.
Emotional Learning System• Step A Self-Assessment
– Explore• Step B Self-Awareness
– Identify• Step C Self-Knowledge
– Understand• Step D Self-Development
– Learn• Step E Self-Improvement
– Apply & Model
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From Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence, by Darwin B. Nelson & Gary
R. Low, Prentice Hall, 2003 p. 17
Misconceptions about EI• Emotional intelligence does not
mean merely “being nice”
• EI does not mean giving free reign to feelings -- “letting it all hang out”
• Women are not “smarter than men when it comes to EI
• Our level of EI is not fixed genetically, nor does it develop in early childhood