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Emotional Intelligence

            Emotional intelligence means the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions as well as the emotions
            of others. It includes three skills are as follows:
              Emotional awareness: It is the ability to identify and mention one’s own emotions.

              Harnessing emotions: It is the ability to harness and apply emotions to tasks like thinking and problem
              solving.
              Managing emotions: It is the ability to regulate one’s own emotions and also helping others to do the
              same.
            Some steps to manage emotional intelligence are as follows:

              Understand your emotions: Observe your behaviour pattern and list down the things you need to work
              on. You can then workout on the things that need improvement.
              Rationalise:  o not take decisions abruptly but sort out problems and be rational in your thinking.
              Practice:  o meditation  yoga  and exercise to keep yourself calm.

               SELF-AWARENESS


            Self-awareness is the knowledge of knowing about oneself. It denotes better understanding of ourselves
            and it enables us to experience ourselves as unique and separate individuals. Self-awareness is about being
            honest with oneself.




















            Self-awareness is mainly of two types:

              Internal Self-awareness: It represents how clearly we see our own values, passions, aspirations and reactions
              including thoughts, feelings, behaviours, strengths, weaknesses, and their impact on others.
              External Self-awareness: It means understanding how other people  udge us in terms of values  passions
              thoughts, behaviours, strengths, and weaknesses. This means how you appear to others and are being
              perceived by others.

            Knowing Yourself
            Understanding who you are, your likes or dislikes, beliefs, values, and opinions can only help in measuring
            your strengths and weaknesses.

            Finding Strengths

            Following are the ways you can find your strengths:
              Think of anything that makes you successful most of the times.



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