Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

By: Jason M. Satterfield, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Jason M. Satterfield

We have all had experiences with people that prove that those with the highest IQs are not always the most successful. What could these very smart people be missing? Chances are it's emotional intelligence (EQ) - the ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions in ourselves and others.

Sounds very powerful, doesn't it? Could we really manage our own emotions, as opposed to having our emotions run the show? Could we really effect change in the emotions of our coworkers or family members? The answer to all these questions is a resounding "yes".

Whether or not you understand your emotions and their resultant behaviors, they leave their impacts like footprints - for better or worse - all over the situations and people with whom you interact throughout your life, as well as affecting your cognition, decision-making, and physical body. And while some aspects of your EQ are inherited, the vast majority of EQ skills can be acquired at any age. In Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Jason Satterfield shares how to identify and regulate your own emotions, how to manage emotions in others, a step-by-step process for building your own interactive Skills Tracker to improve your personal EQ, and where to find numerous resources to improve your EQ as an ongoing, unlimited learning experience.

With the tools and skills you gather from this exciting course, you will be able to improve your emotional intelligence now and throughout your life - using your emotions as you want, to help you reach your own personal goals

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Be emotionally intelligent and get this book

Splendid book on emotional intelligence. I enjoyed the 1 on 1 conversations after the main lectures

Helpful for everyone

Many people focus on developing their intellectual strengths, especially readers who are avid Audible listeners. This course is very points out our need to delve more into our emotions, what are the triggers, how to process your emotions. I think this is a critical topic, well presented by someone very easy to listen to. As a practicing physician, this has helped me help other people inside and outside my practice, and has helped me as a person.
This is a contemporary lecture, recently produced. On the critical side, I would recommend not referring to another course. I bought the prior course, before this one, just listened to this one first. Overall, great subject, easy to listen to, and I promise you will not "feel" the same after this course.

One of my favorite Great Courses

Wonderful experience of learning which everyone would enjoy and benefit from. Excellent examples and presentation.

very informative

very informative and gave great information but had extraneous clips from outdated movies to exemplify the showing of emotions. the movies were from the 30s/40s and so much has changed in that time period regarding social interaction in America. I feel like they could have used more relevant clips for examples.

Solid science but too academic for my taste

Well structured and informative, though too academic for my taste. I had to filter for everyday use and skipped a lot of scientific parts.