Driving With Emotional Intelligence On President’s day this year, I was reading my local newspaper when I came across an article about emotional intelligence. Since it was Presidents Day, it had to do with our Presidents, past and present, and their respective levels of emotional intelligence, or EQ. Being a fan of the EQ quotient, I had to read it. I just like the word ‘emotional intelligence’. Certain words (or phrases) have a positive connotation, like hearing the word “Daddy!” being yelled from small people when I walk in the door after being on the road a few days. Some others have a more negative feeling to them (especially when uttered from my dispatchers mouth), take for example “Pittsburgh” or worse yet, “Philadelphia”! What really does the term ‘emotional intelligence’ mean anyway? Wikipedia’s basic definition is: “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 an...
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