Emotional Intelligence (EI) has always been perceived as the efficiency with which a person is able to control his emotions. The conventional definition of this phenomenon talks about including the literary meanings of both the terms, namely `emotion' and `intelligence.' But having heard of this phrase EI being used and misused by many authors, one has to defend the term from being misused further. A person's ability to manage things necessarily depends upon the situations that have created the necessity of management. This statement declared by the authors need not have generated out of a research study, but could have come out of experience. Sometimes, one is able to manage things very quickly without letting others even know the fact that some amount of management is being done by the person concerned. But in some situations, when a person feels that "things are no longer in his control" or "he is on the verge of losing the battle" or "he has already lost the battle", he is forced to reveal his failure to the people surrounding him. And especially when he proclaims that he is no longer able to manage things, he is declared as an "emotionally imbalanced person".
In
today's hectic world it is essential to inculcate the art
of effective EI management. This skill has to be learnt and
developed by every individual to maintain equilibrium in life
as it is a preventive medicine which could save the people
from falling into miseries like broken families, failed marriages,
alcohol and drug addictions, killings, murders, rape, suicide,
wars, terrorism etc. EI has to be taught to children from
their `teenage' itself. This will help not only solve their
daily-life problems but also overcome the problems posed by
biological changes. Every individual is considered as being
born with certain EI and in the process of socialization certain
emotional behaviors are learned in order to survive and get
adapted to this world. So the responsibility of initiating
and developing EI lies with parents and teachers. |
