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When We Focus On Others, Our World Expands.

....goal Directed Self-imposed Delay Of Gratification Is Perhaps The Essence Of Emotional Self-regulation: The Ability To Deny Impulse In The Service Of A Goal, Whether It Be Building A Business, Solving An Algebraic Equation, Or Pursuing The Stanley Cup.

Comparing The Three Domains, I Found That For Jobs Of All Kinds, Emotional Competencies Were Twice As Prevalent Among Distinguishing Competencies As Were Technical Skills And Purely Cognitive Abilities Combined. In General The Higher A Position In An Organization, The More Ei Mattered: For Individuals In Leadership Positions, 85 Percent Of Their Competencies Were In The Ei Domain.

Educators, Long Disturbed By Schoolchildren's Lagging Scores In Math And Reading, Are Realizing There Is A Different And More Alarming Deficiency: Emotional Literacy. And While Laudable Efforts Are Being Made To Raise Academic Standards, This New And Troubling Deficiency Is Not Being Addressed In The Standard School Curriculum. As One Brooklyn Teacher Put It, The Present Emphasis In Schools Suggests That "we Care More About How Well Schoolchildren Can Read And Write Than Whether They'll Be Alive Next Week."

Emotional Intelligence Begins To Develop In The Earliest Years. All The Small Exchanges Children Have With Their Parents, Teachers, And With Each Other Carry Emotional Messages.