Emotional Intelligence Habits: Change Your Habits, Change Your Life

Travis Bradberry
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In an airport bookstore this book caught my (James) eye. Bradberry defines EQ as the ability to detect emotions in yourself and others, and using that awareness to manage your behaviour and relationships. His book explains that four hundred emotions a day enter our bodies and then travel to our brain. They head to the emotional brain center first and then to the thinking center afterwards. This is why we get stuck making unconscious emotional decisions rather than better, thought-out, intelligent ones.

Bradberry identifies 37 emotional intelligence skills (eg. Stop Procrastination, Survive a Bad Boss, Master Conflict) and offers research-backed brain habits needed to ace them. This book is one of my favourites. I have addressed specific EQ deficiencies and got almost immediate traction by following Bradberry’s practical suggestions.

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