Emotional Intelligence: The Most Complete Blueprint to Develop And Boost Your EQ. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ. (EQ Mastery 2.0) by Glenn Cummings

Author:Glenn Cummings [Cummings, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

- Chapter 6 -

Emotional Intelligence in Relationships

N o man is an island, or so the expression goes. Nature did not intend for human beings to function completely removed from the concerns and troubles of others. Life might be somewhat easier if we could be an island, cut off from others and motivated solely by our own internal concerns, but for whatever reason, we were not wired this way. In fact, the reasons are clear. Human beings are a communal species and the connections that we form are necessary to life. Leaving aside the obvious concerns of procreation, the bonds that we are able to form with other human beings serve a purpose for us that sustains us and is essential for us to be happy.

Human beings exist in groups where the individuals are able to be peculiarly aware of one another and to respond to one another, creating almost an organism that is capable of constant change. Indeed, there is an important philosophical theory that posits that all life on Earth functions as a sort of organism: a creation where the individual species (and the individual members of those species) are able to perceive one another and to respond to each other in ways that are mutually beneficial for the Earth and for all life on Earth.

It is an interesting idea. In particular, this idea that life on Earth functions symbiotically addresses to ideological strains in the study of emotional intelligence: the idea of why human beings seem to be angrier and more disconnected now than ever before and the idea that emotional intelligence may be more important in the future than it is at present.

Although the study of why human beings seem to be experiencing a surge of negative emotion seemingly as a result of global forces is outside the scope of the book, the observation can be made that there does seem to be a practically universal stressor that people are being affected by. Perhaps it has to do with the monotony of modern life or disaffection with the state of affairs globally. Maybe population increases are placing demands on planetary resources and this is activating something deep within us, making us deeply unhappy and stressed.

It is difficult to say why a volatile emotion component seems to be surfacing in the world that we live in today. But relationships are the key. Even if you do not believe that all life on Earth exists as an organism that survives or fails together, it does seem to be the case that this singularity is at least true of human beings. Our ability to relate to one another, to have empathy for one another, allows us to connect as a single unit in ways that we are only just beginning to understand.

Indeed, although we can write an entire book about how humans use empathy and how empathic skills can be improved, there is something to be said about what statement the existence of empathy makes about human beings. Our ability

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