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Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence, Second Edition Darwin B. Nelson & Gary Low

Your

Emotional

Mind

Chapter 1

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Emotions

• Emotions are a major part of your personal experience.

• Discuss the ones that you identify from Exhibit 1.1.


The Emotional System

• It is a feeling state.

• Since feelings are important sources of

information, then accurately identifying a

feeling is calming.

• Identification frees you from emotional

reactivity.

What is an emotion?


What is an Emotion?

1. There’s a physiological and physical

process.

•Ex: flight - fight reaction

2. Emotions give you the impulse to act.


Primary Emotions

• Anger

• Sadness

• Fear

• Happy


Temporal Theory

of Primary Emotions

• Anger is red hot in the

present and signals

danger and an attempt to

stop or start something.

• While anger tied to the

past, becomes

resentment.

• Anger tied to the future

becomes envy or

jealousy.


Temporal Theory

of Primary Emotions

• Fear is yellow and signals potential danger

and the need for caution in the present.

• Traumatic memories from the past make

you afraid in the present.

• Fear in the future becomes worry, stress,

or panic.


Temporal Theory

of Primary Emotions

• Sadness is a blue, empty feeling and

signals a physical or psychological loss in

the present.

• Sadness tied to the past becomes regret,

remorse, or guilt.

• Sadness tied to the future becomes

pessimism and hopelessness.


Emotional Intelligence

• Intentionality is the process of changing

your body’s natural emotional reactivity

into self-valued behavior.


Two Brains

• Intentionality happens by using your two

brains:

the limbic system

the cerebrum.

• They work together to aid decision-making.


Two Brains

• The limbic system contains the amygdala

which is reacts to strong emotions.

• The cerebrum has the frontal lobes which

analyze emotions and helps you to make

rational decisions.


Emotional Intelligence

• Exhibit 1.4 provides the steps for dealing

with strong emotions.

• Practicing these skills allows you to direct

your naturally impulsive behaviors in a

self-valued direction.


Healthy Learning

Environment

• Drive and motivation are internal

processes which you must access to

achieve meaningful goals.

• You can’t wait for it to happen, you are the

one who makes it happen.


College Success Factors

• Colleges and universities have two

important curricula:

1.There’s the academic curriculum which

focuses on content and GPA.

2.And the covert, more emotional

curriculum, which focuses on relationships

developed through social organizations.


EI Hallmarks

• Hallmark 4- EI’s positive assessment

models are key to personal change.

• Hallmark 5- EI employs a transformative

approach which engenders personal

meaning and instills intelligent self-

direction.

• Hallmark 6- Education models must

provide a step by step model for learning

and teaching EI.


Hallmarks of the

Transformative Model of EI

• Hallmark 1- Reflective and constructive

thinking processes can be taught and

learned.

• Hallmark 2- EI employs an integrated set

of learned abilities based on specific

emotional skills.

• Hallmark 3- Using the EI system enhances

academic and life success.


EI Hallmarks

• Hallmark 7- Healthy, effective relationships

are essential for superior performance and

outstanding personal and organizational

leadership.


EI Hallmarks

• Hallmark 8- The EI Learning System

provides accountability.

• Hallmark 9- The EI Learning System

provides a systematic way to

constructively process important life

events and feelings.


EI Hallmarks

• Hallmark 10- The EI assessments include

the four competencies of EI: Interpersonal,

Personal Leadership, Self-Management,

and Intrapersonal.

• Hallmark 11- Intelligent self-direction is a

by-product of studying and learning about

EI.


EI Hallmarks

• Hallmark 12- Developing a healthy

emotional mind must be intentional, skill-

based and it requires protection,

permission, and personal empowerment.

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