Some views on Empathy
I was recently sent an interesting TED talk by Dr. Helen Riess, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, titled The Power of Empathy. One of the interesting parts of the talk is how she forms a mnemonic out of “empathy” to describe performance enhancing techniques for improving one’s empathy. E stands for Eye Gaze: Forming eye contact is critical first step in developing empathy. Dr. Reiss does not mention it but a very good tip for developing empathy is look at someon.....
Read MoreEQ Myth #3: EQ is about emotions
It is generally agreed that Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer published the first two journal articles using the term 'Emotional Intelligence' in 1990. They described it as "a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action". Salovey and Mayer then initiated a research program intended to develop valid measures of emotional intelligence .....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence Myths #2: EQ in more important than IQ
There is a commonly held belief that EQ, not IQ is the best predictor of success. There is much debate about which is the more important. A major cause of this belief is no doubt due to the subtitle of Daniel Goleman’s seminal 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. Since then EQ expert after EQ expert quotes statistics such as people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 per cent of the time and explain the difference as being due to emotion.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence Myths #1: Plato By Christopher Golis MA MBA FAICD FAIM
I will begin my blogs for EI-Hub by writing a series about the myths that have developed in the field of emotional intelligence. You can see from my biography that I was trained at the University of Cambridge and the London Business School. Five years at those two institutions make you a serious sceptic. Recently more and more blogs on Emotional Intelligence are quoting Plato, in particular “All learning has an emotional base." If you have ever read Plato you would be confused by th.....
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