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Summary: Raising Your Awareness of Emotional Intelligence
Review: Three cheers for Ms. Segal and her enlightening book! For too long, we've been taught to hide our feelings. In Daniel Goleman's book, "Emotional Intelligence," he asserts that our first response is to "feel." This acknowledgement is especially important to women. In responding to any circumstances, our emotional centers are triggered before our rational responses. We are not Barbie dolls. "If you prick us, do we not bleed," said Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice."
I, for one, am tired of not feeling. Yes, feelings are often painful, but Ms Segal shows us how to deal with them. In addition to developing our IQ, we need to improve our EQ, our Emotional Quotient. In her studies of terminallly ill people who got well, she found that a significant number were emotional. They were not afraid to feel sad, angry, hurt, or even happy. Based on these studies, she describes four basic skills to help us Raise Our Emotional Intelligence. She has found that how we deal with our feelings has more to do with our health, our success in life, and the quality of our relationships than how we think.
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