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Awareness Is the Starting Point of Emotional Intelligence #shorts

22 May 2025 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube short (by Ashish Kothari) arguing that awareness is the foundational step of emotional intelligence. The speaker outlines a sequence: notice emerging emotion, trace its internal source instead of blaming external circumstances, regulate oneself, then extend to social awareness—recognizing how others perceive you—and activate other emotional skills. The clip links contemporary research with long-standing wisdom about these practices.

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You can't master your emotions unless you are aware of first noticing that this thing is coming on over time, exploring where does the source of this lie, rather than the external world that you might think is to blame for your emotion and then being able to work with it. So I love that you started as well, right? From the research on. It's first about knowing, then about yourself, regulating, then it's about from that place, recognizing the other. What's the social awareness, what's happening, how are you perceived by the others, and then through that, obviously activating many of the other pieces. Again, something we've known for thousands of years, something that has been researched quite extensively and now forgotten. We move on to other things, but we know these things work.