Brendan Kane breaks down emotional intelligence as the ability to pause and understand your emotions instead of reacting to them. Emotionally intelligent people lower their voice in conflict and try to understand rather than win. Carl Jung said making the unconscious conscious prevents it from directing your life.
Here's how you know someone has emotional intelligence. And this goes back to the psychologist Carl Jung, who said, until you're able to make the unconscious conscious, it's going to direct your life and you'll just end up calling it fate. And what he meant was this. Emotionally intelligent people, they don't start with a reaction. They start with reflection. They take the time to understand why they feel a certain way instead of blaming the world around them. And. And you can see emotional intelligence in how someone handles conflict. When something goes wrong, one person raises their voice while the other lowers it. One person tries to win the argument and the other tries to understand it. Emotional intelligence is about controlling your emotions, is about understanding them so deeply that they can no longer control you.
