What This Means:
You have a strong understanding of what your strengths and weaknesses are. You still have human biases like everyone else but you are aware of them and how they impact your behavior. This gives you a leg up above people who don’t have a clear understanding of who they are.
This is because you are honest with yourself. So you made some mistakes in the past. So what? You aren’t too overly concerned with the past because you know the past you did what he or she could at that point in the time. Sometimes, you even make a funny story out of your past mistakes.
You know what else is cool? You can easily predict your reactions to different situations and you use that to your advantage. You avoid what you know isn’t worth your time and you focus on what you really care about. This also allows you to not place as much importance on what other people think.
Above all, you know what drives you and why you find something worth pursuing. Ever find yourself in a tricky situation? The choices may be hard but you always know which one you have to pick. Having such a strong value system makes you a powerful decision maker.
How Can This Help You?
With this, you can best understand what you are best at and what should be best left to others. Focus on your strengths and delegate the rest to others. You move much faster in business if you can leverage the strengths of others and bring your unique strengths to the table. Don’t undersell what you’re good at, there is always a way for you to deploy your strengths. Additionally, revisit your value system every once in a while. Your ability to make decisions you won’t regret is a strength to keep sharp.
What About The Other Kinds of Emotional Intelligence?
Self Regulation:
This is the ability to step out of a situation and assess your reaction to it. People who develop this still have negative feelings but they don’t act upon them. Instead they question them and probe the origins of such feelings. Eventually this becomes a habit that allows them to be comfortable with ambiguity and change.
Because they have become so adept in their reactions to other situations, they develop strong resilience and flexibility to whatever life throws at them. This is how some people turn negative events into motivation.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Without this, any leader or entrepreneur will reach a ceiling they can’t break past. The beauty of empathy is that it can also be applied from a sales perspective. Without getting out of your own head and into the heads of your customers, you won’t sell. Aside from that, regardless of whether you scale your business or grow your career, empathy is a core foundation of leadership skills. Without it, few would willingly follow you.
Empathy:
This is the ability to expand one’s perspective to include the thought patterns and feelings of others. You can never really put yourself completely into the shoes of another but having empathy is the closest you can get. This is the understanding that you think the way you do because of how you grew up and you apply that to others as well. Even when you can’t understand someone else’s opinion or feelings, you know that is because you haven’t lived their past. By respecting and accepting that about themselves, you give others the space to be themselves.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Without this, any leader or entrepreneur will reach a ceiling they can’t break past. The beauty of empathy is that it can also be applied from a sales perspective. Without getting out of your own head and into the heads of your customers, you won’t sell. Aside from that, regardless of whether you scale your business or grow your career, empathy is a core foundation of leadership skills. Without it, few would willingly follow you.
Relationship Management:
This is the ability to create change within others. People who develop this are strong team players and live for the group synergy moments. They also tend to be persuasive, which helps them during times of conflict or change. They also go out of their way to help bring out the potential of others.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Any great endeavor is done with a group of people. But what comes with working with a group of people? Constant conflict, the need to develop others over time and managing change are just a few of the major headaches one has to face in a group. If you are not equipped for this, you’ll soon reach a limit in what you can do by yourself.
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